boom

About 7.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.

   Thunder boomed in the distance and lightning flashes lit up the horizon.

2. verb To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
3. verb To flourish, grow, or progress.

   The population boomed in recent years.

4. verb To make (something) boom.

   Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.

5. verb To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
6. verb : To cause a sonic boom. To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.
7. verb To cause a sonic boom.
8. verb To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.

Similar words

smash din roar roaring expand get ahead flourish thrive blast thunder

Often followed by

in of and was years generation is that period

Word family

boomed booming booms