Meaning

1 senses

  1. To make such a sound.

    Her old bicycle was clunking along the road.

    make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

Examples

3 sentences

  1. The door closed with a clunk.

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  2. He heard a weird clunking noise in the engine.

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  3. When I went to buy a can of coffee from the vending machine, it came out with a clunk.

    deAls ich mir am Verkaufsautomaten eine Dose Kaffee kaufte, kam sie ratternd heraus. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Forms

clunks, clunking, clunked, clunked
Base formclunk · to clunk
3rd person singularclunks
Present participleclunking
Past simpleclunked
Past participleclunked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyclunk
he, she, itclunks

Past simpleLesson

all personsclunked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave clunked
he, she, ithas clunked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill clunk

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground:clopclumpplunk

Word family

1 related words
Derivedclunker

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
clumsilyclumsinessclumsyB2clunkerclunkycluster

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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