MEANING
To make, or cause, a hollow sound through a hard impact.
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Words that belong together
- a pipe clonks
- clonk against metal
On the page
A pipe clonked behind the plaster.
The handle clonked against the metal housing when he released it.
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Word forms
- Base
- clonk
- Past tense
- clonked
- Past participle
- clonked
- Present participle
- clonking
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- clonk
- Present continuous
- am/is/are clonking
- Present perfect
- have/has clonked
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been clonking
- Past
- clonked
- Past continuous
- was/were clonking
- Past perfect
- had clonked
- Past perfect continuous
- had been clonking
- Future
- will clonk
- Future continuous
- will be clonking
- Future perfect
- will have clonked
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been clonking
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: clonk; clonks; clonked; clonked; clonking Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: clonks.
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