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n. - Sound of rapid vibration.

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Usage examples (4)
  • Whenever he sees that the attention of his audience is flagging he introduces an interlude of "bombination," which renders lethargy impossible and exercises an...
  • I would like to have a meditation, a rumination, a lucubration, a bombination, about the prostate.
  • The fololwing of a conata, like the bombination of a chimæra, apparently puts some strain upon the attention of an audience.
  • For he was able to assure them, speaking with the authority of one who had taken first-class honours in Zoology, that the study of Greek more than anything else predisposed...
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