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noun

Booming n. The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns.

verb

Boom v. t. (Naut.) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.

Boom v. t. To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator. (Colloq. U. S.)

Boom v. i. (past & past part. boomed, pres. part. booming)

To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. "At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone."

To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. "Alarm guns booming through the night air."

To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. "She comes booming down before it."

To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.

adjective

Booming adj.

Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. "O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar."

Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity. (Colloq. U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Booming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Booming" Quotes from Famous Books

... a howling, hollow, intermittent sound—like thunder at a distance. I stopped again, and rested against a rock. After some time, the mist began to part to seaward, but remained still as thick as ever on each side of me. I went on towards the lighter sky in front—the thunder-sound booming louder and louder, in the very heart, as it seemed, of the ...

— Basil • Wilkie Collins

... clouds came over Rich mountain, settling down upon and hiding its summit entirely. Heaven gave us a specimen of its artillery firing, and a heavy shower fell, drenching us all completely. As I write, the sound of a cannon comes booming over the mountain. There it goes again! Whether it is at Phillippi or Laurel Hill, I can not tell. Certain it is that the portion of our army advancing up the Valley river is in battle, somewhere, and not ...

— The Citizen-Soldier - or, Memoirs of a Volunteer • John Beatty

... quite incontestable that we journalists are to be blamed. We help in the "booming"; we are the big drum, the players provide their own trumpets. A conspiracy of silence on our part would do much to mend matters. If for a little while we were to suppress the "personal pars." and keep out the photographs and only write concerning ...

— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

... utterly overcome. Alice left them alone together a full hour before even she intruded, and little by little, as the days went by and Mrs. Maynard realized that it was really her Fred who was whistling about, the cottage or booming trooper songs in his great basso profundo, and glorying in his regiment and the cavalry life he had led, a wonderful content and joy shone in her handsome face. It was not until the colonel announced that it was about ...

— From the Ranks • Charles King

... brooding, with the pall straight before us, the funeral guns are heard indistinctly booming from the far forts, with the tap of drums in the serried street without, where troops and citizens are forming for the grand procession. We see through the window in the beautiful spring day that the grass is brightly green; and all the ...

— The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth • George Alfred Townsend

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