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Definition of the day : « percussive »

  • As in shocked : adj amazed
Example sentences :
  • There are commonly holes in the blade, which give the application a percussive effect.
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 » by Various
  • The prayers of the Church contain a petition against the spiritus percutiens, or spirit who produces ‘percussive noises’.
  • Extract from : « Cock Lane and Common-Sense » by Andrew Lang
  • It might have been caused by a very heavy fall of snow from a high roof—not sliding, but percussive.
  • Extract from : « The Alleged Haunting of B---- House » by Various
  • There is no mark in the dictionaries to indicate the percussive brevity of the vowel sound in "suh" as he pronounced it.
  • Extract from : « Spring notes from Tennessee » by Bradford Torrey
  • Their principle, modified to suit work of another character, is seen in percussive rock drills, such as the Ingersoll Sergeant.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Modern Mechanism » by Archibald Williams
  • A joke was sacred from implication; it was self-sufficient, vocal in line and curve, percussive.
  • Extract from : « George Cruikshank » by W. H. Chesson
  • These machines are of different types, but all depend on percussive action.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 » by Various
  • It turned hard, and the lock finally yielded with a percussive snap.
  • Extract from : « The Garden, You, and I » by Mabel Osgood Wright