boomed

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Boom \Boom\ (b[=oo]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boomed, p. pr. & vb. n. Booming.] [Of imitative origin; cf. OE. bommen to hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W. bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf. Bum, Bump, v. i., Bomb, v. i.]

1.To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. [1913 Webster]

At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]

2.To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. [1913 Webster]

Alarm guns booming through the night air.— W. Irving.[1913 Webster]

3.To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. [1913 Webster]

She comes booming down before it.— Totten.[1913 Webster]

4.To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly. [1913 Webster]

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