frapper — meaning in English

English meaning

• bang noun A sudden loud noise, such as an explosion or a hard impact.
• buffalo verb To intimidate, confuse, or trick someone, often to pressure them into doing something.
• hit verb To strike someone or something, often forcefully.
• knock verb To strike something, especially a door, sharply with the knuckles or an object.
• smite verb (literary) To strike hard, especially with a weapon or divine power.
• strike verb To hit someone or something, often forcefully.
• swat verb To hit something sharply and quickly, especially an insect.
• whack verb To hit something hard and sharply.

Senses

frapper is used for these senses in English:

• bang (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
• buffalo (archaic, transitive) To pistol-whip.
• hit (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
• hit (transitive) To affect negatively.
• knock (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
• strike (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
• strike (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
• strike (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).

bang — full definition

1. noun A sudden loud noise, such as an explosion or a hard impact.
2. verb To hit something hard, often producing a loud noise.
3. noun In plural, a fringe of hair cut straight across the forehead (chiefly US).

buffalo — full definition

1. verb To intimidate, confuse, or trick someone, often to pressure them into doing something.
2. verb To hunt buffalo.

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