MEANING
To make, or cause, a dull heavy sound through impact.
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Words that belong together
- a mechanism clunks
- clunk into place
On the page
The mechanism clunked into place behind the door.
Something clunked beneath the floor as the light went out.
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Word forms
- Base
- clunk
- Past tense
- clunked
- Past participle
- clunked
- Present participle
- clunking
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- clunk
- Present continuous
- am/is/are clunking
- Present perfect
- have/has clunked
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been clunking
- Past
- clunked
- Past continuous
- was/were clunking
- Past perfect
- had clunked
- Past perfect continuous
- had been clunking
- Future
- will clunk
- Future continuous
- will be clunking
- Future perfect
- will have clunked
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been clunking
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: clunk; clunks; clunked; clunked; clunking Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: clunks.
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