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Synonyms for bump
bʌmpbump
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Princeton's WordNet
bumpnoun
a lump on the body caused by a blow
Synonyms:
protrusion, extrusion, hump, excrescence, blow, protuberance, prominence, swelling, gibbousness, jut, gibbosity, bulgebulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescencenoun
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
"the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"
Synonyms:
swelling, lump, expulsion, protrusion, prominence, gibbousness, jut, jutting, intumescence, extrusion, bulge, projection, protuberance, gibbosity, intumescency, blow, puffiness, hump, excrescenceblow, bumpverb
an impact (as from a collision)
"the bump threw him off the bicycle"
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swelling, nose candy, reversal, setback, gibbousness, jut, snow, coke, shock, extrusion, black eye, bulge, reverse, protuberance, gibbosity, puff, protrusion, blow, gust, prominence, hump, blast, excrescencebump, knockverb
knock against with force or violence
"My car bumped into the tree"
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criticise, encounter, happen, chance, relegate, rap, tap, pink, knock, demote, break, kick downstairs, ping, find, pick apart, criticize, strike hard, dislodgefind, happen, chance, bump, encounterverb
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
"We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
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line up, detect, recover, kick downstairs, find oneself, befall, take chances, get, get hold, run across, gamble, demote, fall out, find, pass off, retrieve, hazard, knock, rule, notice, meet, chance, determine, see, find out, come about, come up, play, take a chance, encounter, materialize, happen, go on, receive, feel, occur, risk, pass, incur, take place, come across, bechance, observe, run into, adventure, witness, dislodge, run a risk, ascertain, relegate, take on, hap, break, regain, obtain, materialise, discoverbumpverb
dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward
"bump and grind"
Synonyms:
kick downstairs, encounter, find, chance, dislodge, knock, demote, happen, break, relegatedemote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairsverb
assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
"She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant"
Synonyms:
crack, bar, give way, violate, break dance, give out, unwrap, fall apart, collapse, die, classify, transgress, founder, weaken, discover, snap off, stop, go, demote, break out, separate, split, give away, damp, smash, happen, knock, interrupt, offend, get out, fracture, relegate, bring out, soften, reveal, divulge, pause, let on, get around, bust, wear out, cave in, encounter, break-dance, check, break up, breach, break in, give, split up, chance, better, burst, go bad, break off, disclose, find, erupt, recrudesce, submit, go against, dampen, break down, break away, fall in, let out, conk out, ruin, kick downstairs, part, infract, fail, come apart, bankrupt, develop, expose, break, banish, discontinue, intermit, dislodge, wear, pass ondislodge, bumpverb
remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
"The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
Synonyms:
demote, kick downstairs, knock, shift, chance, dislodge, encounter, free, reposition, happen, break, relegate, find
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
bumpnoun
bumpnoun
Synonyms:
swelling, protuberancebumpnoun
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[colloquial, in allusion to the doctrine of phrenology that protuberances on the skull indicate faculties of the mind.] Faculty, power, endowment, giftbumpverb
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
bumpnoun
Synonyms:
protuberance, prominence, lump, nodule, swellingbumpverb
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How to use bump in a sentence?
If [ Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ] blasts you on Twitter, or if Warren talks about an acquisition as dangerous, that's going to put up a speed bump, even if the regulators might approve it, you've got antitrust by tweet as an important factor.
It's funny because everyone thinks' Oh, that baby bump, it's going to help you hit the ball farther.' No, no, no. That's not how it works guys. It's the opposite.
I think when they went to get medical attention for the bump initially, the bite kind of slipped their mind because they didn’t see it as a potential exposure, because it just healed. And it was only later on during the course of treatment, as it got worse, that it kind of jogged their memory and they brought it to the doctor’s attention.
I think she's going to make a great recovery, a month from now this is going to be a little bump in the road.
We had to come up with our own ways of replicating the sort of pushing we need to do. So that's why we thought: why not go out and push the car? we do get some funny looks. We've had people run over, thinking the car's broken down, trying to help us bump-start the car. When we tell them we're the Jamaica bobsleigh team, the direction is totally different, and they're very excited.
Translations for bump
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- цицина, издутина, сблъскванеBulgarian
- bouleCzech
- Beule, Schlag, Stoß, Plumps, Unebenheit, Delle, Bodenwelle, BumsGerman
- cototo, chichón, tolondro, bultoSpanish
- دست اندازPersian
- bumppausFinnish
- bosse, bourrade, ballon, saillie, boumFrench
- gnocco, botta, gonfiore, bozzo, protuberanza, pancione, colpettoItalian
- מַכָּהHebrew
- kulNorwegian
- buil, botsing, bultDutch
- kulNorwegian Nynorsk
- łup, bum, brzuch, stłuczka, wybój, guzPolish
- galo, estrondo, saliência, protuberância, inchaçoPortuguese
- удар, шишка, столкновение, выпуклость, ухаб, колдобина, опухольRussian
- čvorugaSerbo-Croatian
- vuruş, tümsek, küt, yumru, çarpma, şişlik, şişTurkish
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