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PERCUSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does percuss mean? 

PERCUSS (verb)
  The verb PERCUSS has 1 sense:

1. strike or tap firmlyplay

  Familiarity information: PERCUSS used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PERCUSS (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they percuss  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it percusses  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: percussed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: percussed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: percussing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Strike or tap firmly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

the doctor percussed his chest and back

Hypernyms (to "percuss" is one way to...):

tap; tip (strike lightly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

percussion (tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes)

percussive (involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments)

percussor ((medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes)


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