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🔊 A dull sound 💥 To hit heavily 💥 A loud thud 📚 To hurt in fiction
to whump

to whump

9.9
To make a made-up character suffer physically or emotionally in a story
  • verb
  • /wʌmp/
  • Jargon
translation icon : hacer sufrir
  • The author decided to whump the main character in the next chapter to increase the tension.

Examples

  • Fans often debate how much a writer should whump their favorite hero in a story.

  • After several chapters of whumping, the character finally found some peace.

  • The hero whumped to the ground after the explosion.

  • Did you see how he whumped that villain?

  • The author decided to whump the main character in a dramatic scene to heighten the story's emotional stakes.

  • In her fan fiction, she chose to whump the hero, putting him through various trials and hardships.

  • Readers expressed their concern about the frequent whumping of the beloved character in the latest chapter.

Synonyms

to wrack
vsto whump
  • Archaic
30 8.7

To severely damage something so it cannot be used

targets a fictional character, causing injury or distress for dramatic effect

How Severe

to kill
  • NSFW
∞ 1.0
to torture
  • Offensive
582 5.7
to maim
  • NSFW
35 7.0
to whump
  • Jargon
9.9
to wound
617 2.3
to hurt
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

whump infinitive
whumped past
whumped past participle
whumping present participle
whumps third person singular

Etymology

Whump comes from the idea of a sudden hard 'hit', and a helpful way to remember this sense is to think of an author giving a character a hard 'hit' in the story. So to 'whump' a character means to put them through physical or emotional suffering to create tension.