How to pronounce“boom”in English
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Definitions of “boom”
To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
“Thunder boomed in the distance and lightning flashes lit up the horizon.”
To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
“I was about to reach for the marmalade, when I heard the telephone tootling out in the hall and rose to attend to it. “Bertram Wooster's residence,” I said, having connected with the instrument. “Wooster in person at this end. Oh hullo,” I added, for the voice that boomed over the wire was that of Mrs Thomas Portarlington Travers of Brinkley Court, Market Snodsbury, near Droitwich – or, putting it another way, my good and deserving Aunt Dahlia. [...] “I'd give a tenner to have Aubrey Upjohn here at this moment.” “You can get him for nothing. He's in Uncle Tom's study.” Her face lit up. “He is?” [Aunt Dahlia] threw her head back and inflated the lungs. “UPJOHN!” she boomed, rather like someone calling the cattle home across the sands of Dee, and I issued a kindly word of warning. “Watch that blood pressure, old ancestor.””
A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
“the boom of the surf”
A rapid expansion or increase.
“You should prepare for the coming boom in the tech industry.”
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