Crossword-Solution: PERCUSSION 10 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Percussion n. The act of percussing, or striking one body against
another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.
Percussion n. Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory
shock; impression of sound on the ear.
Percussion n. The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body
in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound
emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to
be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some
interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called
mediate.

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PERCUSSION anagram COINPURSES, CROUPINESS, SUPERSONIC

We have 19 clues for the answer “PERCUSSION”

Clue Answers
FORCIBLE striking of one body against another 1 answer
the act of striking; musical instruments as drums, etc, sounded by being struck 1 answer
tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes 1 answer
Triangle, bells, etc. 1 answer
Rhythmic backbone of an orchestra 1 answer
Section played by striking, shaking, or scraping 1 answer
Instrument family including drums, cymbals, and xylophones 1 answer
Anagram of SUPERSONIC 1 answer
adodo 2 answers
afuché 2 answers
balafon 2 answers
amadinda 3 answers
MUSICAL instrument category 3 answers
angklung 3 answers
MASSAGE technique 6 answers
Orchestra section 15 answers
Collision 26 answers
Kitchen 43 answers
Impact 52 answers
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Sentences with PERCUSSION (5)

Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
This night they shelled us again heavily for some hours--the same shorts, hits, overs on percussion, and great yellow-green air bursts.
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems John McCrae 2008
Striking through the thought of his dear ones was sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce 1995
Nay, some have been so curious, as to note, that the times when the stroke or percussion of an envious eye doth most hurt, are when the party envied is beheld in glory or triumph; for that sets an edge upon envy: and besides, at such times the spirits of the person envied, do come forth most into the outward parts, and so meet the blow.
Essays Francis Bacon 1996
The "growth" was rounded, dull on percussion, and looked as if an exploratory incision or puncture would be advisable for diagnosis.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996

Quotes with PERCUSSION (3)

We ought to be much more fearful of what we don’t know. We should really be fearful of an unconscious that inhabits us, that guides us, that influences our life and of which we don’t know the face and don’t know the message. Actually I have much less fear since I confronted fears. What’s frightening to me is people whose unconscious leads them, destroys them, and yet they will never stop and look at it. That’s the minotaur in the labyrinth, which many people never come face t…
Anais Nin A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars and Interviews of Anais Nin
It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one into an environment compared with which New York or London would appear deserts. For we take memory and imagination with us. The seabirds that scream overhead or waddle along the margins of the surf; the grotesque forms of twisted cedars; the rustle of sea-grass in the wind; the interminable percussion of the breakers; the dead infinity of the sand itself -…
Julian Hawthorne American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
I heard the universe as an oratorio sung by a master choir of stars, accompanied by the orchestra of the planets and the percussion of satellites and moons. The aria they performed was a song to break the heart, full of tragic dissonance and deferred hope, and yet somewhere beneath it all was a piercing refrain of glory, glory, glory. And I sensed that not only the grand movements of the cosmos, but everything that had happened in my life, was a part of that song. Even the hu…
R.J. Anderson Ultraviolet
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Used 5 times in crossword archives (1983–2018).