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PERCUSS
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they percuss ... he / she / it percusses
Past simple: percussed
Past participle: percussed
-ing form: percussing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Strike or tap firmly
Example:
the doctor percussed his chest and back
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "percuss" is one way to...):
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)
