THESAURUS
percussion
appulse, battery, bells, bones, brunt, bulldozing, bulling, bump, cannon, carambole, carom, castanets, celesta, chime, chimes, clappers, clash, collision, concussion, crack-up, crash, crash cymbal, crump, crunch, cymbals, encounter, finger cymbals, gamelan, glockenspiel, gong, hammering, handbells, idiophone, impact, impingement, jar, jolt, lyra, maraca, marimba, mauling, meeting, metallophone, onslaught, orchestral bells,
percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, ramming, rattle, rattlebones, repercussion, shock, sideswipe, sizzler, sledgehammering, smash, smash-up, smashing, snappers, tam-tam, thrusting, tintinnabula, tonitruone, triangle, tubular bells, vibes, vibraphone, whomp, xylophone
ROGET THESAURUS
percussion
Impulse
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impulse, sudden thought, impromptu, improvisation, inspiration, flash, spurt, improvisatore, creature of impulse, extemporaneous, impulsive, indeliberate, snap, improvised, improvisate, improvisatory, unpremeditated, unmeditated, improvise, unprompted, unguided, natural, unguarded, spontaneous, instinctive, extempore, extemporaneously, offhand, impromptu, a limproviste, improviso, on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion, impulse, impulsion, impetus, momentum, push, pulsion, thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost, throw, explosion, propulsion,
percussion, concussion, collision, occursion, clash, encounter, cannon, carambole, appulse, shock, crash, bump, impact, elan, charge, beating, blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab, fillip, slam, bang, hit, whack, thwack, cuff, squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration, ruade, arietation, cut, thrust, lunge, yerk, carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe, hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail, ram, rammer, battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat, cant hook, cudgel, ax, dynamics, seismometer, accelerometer, earthquake detector, impelling, impulsive, impellent, booming, dynamic, dynamical, impelled, a hit, a very palpable hit.