percuss

Meaning

1. To strike; to hit; to knock; to give a blow to.
2. To impact.
3. To attempt to divine the location or other quality of something by tapping on (an overlying surface).
4. To attempt to divine the location or other quality of (something) by tapping on an overlying surface.

Synonyms

knock

tap

to strike

Translations

percuter

percutir

abklopfen

Hyphenated as

per‧cuss

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pəˈkʌs/

Etymology

From Latin percussus, past participle of percutiō (“strike, beat”), from per (“through”) + quatiō (“shake, strike”).