drumming (root: drum)

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: drum=ming

THESAURUS

drumming

arrhythmia, bang, barrage, bash, bat, beat, beating, belt, biff, blinding, blow, bonk, cat-and-doggish, chop, clicking, clip, clout, clump, crack, cut, dash, dig, dint, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drub, drubbing, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire, flutter, fluttering, fusillade, heartbeat, heartthrob, hit, jab, knock, lick, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, palpitant, palpitation, paradiddle, patter, pelt, pelting, pitapat, pitter-patter, plunk, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, poke, pound, pounding, pouring, pulsation, pulse, punch, rainy, rap, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, rhythm, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, showery, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, sock, spatter, spattering, splutter, spluttering, sputter, sputtering, staccato, streaming, stroke, swat, swing, swipe, tat-tat, tattoo, tempo, throb, throbbing, thrum, thrumming, thump, thumping, thwack, ticking, tom-tom, whack, whop, yerk

ROGET THESAURUS

drumming

Repetition

N repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run, battology, tautology, monotony, tautophony, rhythm, diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy, chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain, rehearsal, rechauffe, rifacimento, recapitulation, cuckoo, reverberation, drumming, renewal, twice-told tale, old story, old song, second edition, new edition, reappearance, reproduction, recursion, periodicity, repeated, repetitional, repetitionary, recurrent, recurring, ever recurring, thick coming, frequent, incessant, redundant, pleonastic, monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive, unvaried, mocking, chiming, retold, aforesaid, aforenamed, above-mentioned, above-said, habitual, another, repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more, ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo, again and again, over and over, over and over again, recursively, many times over, time and again, time after time, year after year, day by day, many times, several times, a number of times, many a time, full many a time, frequently, ecce iterum Crispinus, toujours perdrix, cut and come again, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, cantilenam eandem canis, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.

Roll

N roll, drumming, berloque, bombination, rumbling, tattoo, drumroll, dingdong, tantara, rataplan, whirr, ratatat, ratatat-tat, rubadub, pitapat, quaver, clutter, charivari, racket, cuckoo, repetition, peal of bells, devil's tattoo, reverberation, clickety-clack, hum, purr, hummingbird, cat, kitten (animal sounds), rolling, monotonous, like a bee in a bottle.