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Mr. Tom Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

The wooden floor in the next room ...

Hi

I need a word for the following situation. What verb would be appropriate here?

The wooden floor in the next hall ____________ as the  waiters scurried around.

(Don't laugh but something like "dham dham sound")

Thanks,

Tom
  

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Are you looking for "reverberated"?
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Wooden floors, especially old ones, creak when you walk on them.
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The first thing I thought of was "creaked", but then I thought it wasn't "scurrying around" enough. I'm thinking of something like a tap dance (but not so virtuosic!), but I don't know if the OP is thinking of that.

Maybe, 'clacked'? Is that a word? Even if it is, maybe it's the waiters who clacked, or tapped, or rapped, not the floor. I'm hard pressed to know what the floor did.
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Thanks, AStars, Wilpeter and CJ.

A couple of days ago, we went to a huge restaurant that had got a wooden floor in some of its halls. The hall next to us was full of waiters running here and there. The floor was literally making a constant (and somewhat offensive) DHAM DHAM sound as the men scurried about. This gave me a terrible headache (that was soon accompanied by mild nausea) before
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Have you read the definition of reverberate? While it isn't exactly the sound you describe, it describes the process that generates such a sound. It was the best I could come up with.
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Mr. TomThe wooden floor thudded as the waiters scurried about.
Yes, I think this would work, based on your description.
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a wooden floor and wooden flooring are equivalent. Yes.

CJ
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Mr. TomThe floor was literally making a constant (and somewhat offensive) DHAM DHAM sound as the men scurried about.
No, the floor was not making the noise, but the men's shoes clattering and clomping loudly on the floor did.

For creaking, the person's feet can be in socks or slippers, yet the floor itself makes the sound.
In traditional palaces
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The following are possible:

resounded

drummed

bammed

shook
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Mr. TomThe wooden floor thudded as the waiters scurried about.
You've received a number of other good answers here, but I like rumbled.

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