Synonyms for bump
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1. bumpnoun

   a lump on the body caused by a blow

   Synonyms:
   protrusion, extrusion, hump, excrescence, blow, protuberance, prominence, swelling, gibbousness, jut, gibbosity, bulge

2. bulge, 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, excrescence

3. blow, bumpverb

   an impact (as from a collision)

   "the bump threw him off the bicycle"

   Synonyms:
   swelling, nose candy, reversal, setback, gibbousness, jut, snow, coke, shock, extrusion, black eye, bulge, reverse, protuberance, gibbosity, puff, protrusion, blow, gust, prominence, hump, blast, excrescence

4. bump, knockverb

   knock against with force or violence

   "My car bumped into the tree"

   Synonyms:
   criticise, encounter, happen, chance, relegate, rap, tap, pink, knock, demote, break, kick downstairs, ping, find, pick apart, criticize, strike hard, dislodge

5. find, 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"

   Synonyms:
   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, discover

6. bumpverb

   dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward

   "bump and grind"

   Synonyms:
   kick downstairs, encounter, find, chance, dislodge, knock, demote, happen, break, relegate

7. demote, 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 on

8. dislodge, 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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1. • Dance
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   • Injury
   • Projection

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1. bumpnoun

   Synonyms:
   thump, knock, blow

2. bumpnoun

   Synonyms:
   swelling, protuberance

3. bumpnoun

   Synonyms:
   [colloquial, in allusion to the doctrine of phrenology that protuberances on the skull indicate faculties of the mind.] Faculty, power, endowment, gift

4. bumpverb

   Synonyms:
   knock, thump, strike, hit

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1. bumpnoun

   Synonyms:
   protuberance, prominence, lump, nodule, swelling

2. bumpverb

   Synonyms:
   jolt, jounce, thump

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1. List of paraphrases for "bump":

   hump, damper

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How to use bump in a sentence?

1. Steve Malanga:

   This is the kind of budget you would pass if you were a state that hit a bump in the road and had a deficit you needed to get rid of over the next two or three years, it's not the kind of budget you'd pass if you have $14 billion in unpaid bills and a $130 billion unfunded (pension) liability.

2. Bruce Riedel:

   The summit of the nine Arab leaders is a clear accomplishment as is the backing for the truce in Yemen. But these accomplishments have come at the cost of the fist bump.

3. Lisa Barao:

   Maybe you bump into someone at a bar, just an instant of disrespect.

4. Chief Executive Officer Almir Bendine:

   Even if we hit a road-bump we have sufficient cash through 2017, this doesn't mean if we have good opportunities to raise cash or lengthen maturities we won't do it.

5. Fabrice:

   The civi service is a place where, in the stairs, those who arrive late bump into those who leave early!