What's The Definition Of Bump?
[n] an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle"
[n] something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form
[n] a lump on the body caused by a blow
[v] knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"
[v] remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
[v] dance erotically, as in"bump and grind": dance with the pelvis thrust forward
[v] 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"
[v] assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Bump: blow |
break |
bulge |
chance |
demote |
dislodge |
displace |
encounter |
excrescence |
extrusion |
find |
gibbosity |
gibbousness |
happen |
hump |
jut |
kick downstairs |
knock |
prominence |
protrusion |
protuberance |
relegate
Related Terms | Find terms related to Bump: abase |
abasement |
ability |
aerospace |
aerosphere |
air hole |
air pocket |
airspace |
appulse |
aptness |
assassinate |
assault |
bang |
bang into |
bear |
bear upon |
bearing |
bent |
bilge |
blain |
bleb |
blister |
blob |
blow |
bob |
bobble |
boil |
boost |
boot |
boss |
bounce |
bow |
break |
brunt |
bubble |
buck |
buffet |
bulb |
bulge |
bull |
bulla |
bulldoze |
bulldozing |
bulling |
bump against |
bump into |
bump off |
bunch |
bunion |
bunt |
burl |
burst |
bust |
butt |
butt against |
button |
cahot |
caliber |
can |
cannon |
capability |
capacity |
carambole |
carbuncle |
carom |
carom into |
cashier |
casting down |
CAT |
ceiling |
chance |
chatter |
chine |
chink |
chuckhole |
clap |
clash |
click |
clink |
clop |
clump |
clunk |
collide |
collision |
colophon |
come across |
come into collision |
concavity |
concuss |
concussion |
condyle |
confront each other |
convex |
convexity |
corn |
crack |
crack up |
crack-up |
cram |
crash |
crash into |
crosswind |
crowd |
crump |
crunch |
cyst |
dactylogram |
dactylograph |
dash into |
debase |
debasement |
defrock |
degradation |
degrade |
degrading |
dement |
demote |
demotion |
dent |
deplume |
depluming |
depose |
deprive |
destroy |
didder |
dig |
dilatation |
dilation |
dint |
disbar |
discharge |
disemploy |
disgrade |
disgrading |
dismiss |
dispatch |
displace |
displume |
displuming |
distension |
dither |
do away with |
do in |
dowel |
dower |
downgrade |
downgrading |
dowry |
drive |
drum out |
dull thud |
ear |
edema |
elbow |
eliminate |
embossment |
empty space |
encounter |
endowment |
equipment |
excrescence |
execute |
expel |
faculty |
fall foul of |
falter |
favorable wind |
fingerprint |
fire |
flair |
flange |
flap |
flick |
flop |
flump |
fog |
footmark |
footprint |
footstep |
force |
forte |
fossil footprint |
foul |
front |
furlough |
furuncle |
gall |
genius |
gift |
give the ax |
give the gate |
gnarl |
goad |
grimace |
hammering |
handle |
have an ague |
head |
head wind |
high-pressure area |
hill |
hit |
hit against |
hole |
humble |
humbling |
hump |
hunch |
hurt |
hurtle |
hustle |
ice |
ichnite |
ichnolite |
impact |
impinge |
impingement |
impress |
impression |
imprint |
indent |
indentation |
indention |
instinct |
intumescence |
ionosphere |
jab |
jactitate |
jam |
jar |
jerk |
jetstream |
jig |
jigget |
jiggle |
jog |
joggle |
jolt |
jostle |
jounce |
jump |
kick |
kick upstairs |
kill |
knack |
knob |
knock |
knock against |
knot |
knur |
knurl |
lay off |
let go |
let out |
light |
lip |
liquidate |
long suit |
loop |
lower |
low-pressure area |
luck |
lump |
make redundant |
makings |
mauling |
meet |
meeting |
metier |
mole |
mountain |
mudhole |
murder |
natural endowment |
natural gift |
nevus |
nub |
nubbin |
nubble |
nudge |
onslaught |
overcast |
pad |
papilloma |
parts |
pat |
patter |
paw print |
pawmark |
peg |
pension off |
percuss |
percussion |
pile drive |
pimple |
pitapat |
pitter-patter |
plump |
plunk |
pock |
pocket |
poke |
pop |
potential |
pothole |
power |
powers |
press |
pressure |
print |
prod |
protuberance |
pug |
pugmark |
punch |
push |
pustule |
put away |
quake |
qualification |
quaver |
quiver |
ram |
ram down |
ramming |
rap |
rattle |
read out of |
reduce |
reduction |
release |
remove |
replace |
report |
retire |
rib |
rictus |
ridge |
ring |
rising |
roughness |
rub out |
run |
run across |
run against |
run into |
rut |
sack |
seal |
sebaceous cyst |
separate forcibly |
shake |
shiver |
shock |
shoulder |
shove |
shudder |
sideswipe |
sigil |
signet |
slam |
slam into |
slap |
slat |
sledgehammering |
smack |
smack into |
smash |
smash into |
smash up |
smashing |
smash-up |
soup |
space |
speciality |
spine |
splat |
stamp |
step |
stratosphere |
stress |
strike |
strike against |
strip |
strip of rank |
stripping of rank |
strong flair |
strong point |
stud |
stumble |
style |
substratosphere |
superannuate |
surplus |
suspend |
swap |
swell |
swelling |
swollenness |
tab |
tail wind |
talent |
talents |
tamp |
tap |
the goods |
the stuff |
thrust |
thrusting |
thud |
thumbmark |
thumbprint |
thump |
thwack |
tic |
tick |
tinkle |
tremble |
tremor |
tropopause |
troposphere |
trough |
tubercle |
tubercule |
tumble |
tumefaction |
tumescence |
tumidity |
tumor |
tunk |
turbulence |
turgescence |
turgescency |
turgidity |
turn |
turn off |
turn out |
twitch |
twitter |
unfrock |
verruca |
vesicle |
vestige |
vibrate |
visibility |
visibility zero |
wale |
wallop |
wart |
waste |
welt |
wen |
whack |
wham |
whap |
what it takes |
whomp |
whop |
wipe out |
wobble
See Also | assign |
bang |
bash |
batter |
belly |
belt |
boot out |
buffet |
buffeting |
bump into |
bump off |
butt against |
caput |
chuck out |
collide with |
concussion |
dance |
delegate |
depute |
designate |
dispatch |
eject |
exclude |
expel |
frontal eminence |
harm |
hit |
hit |
hurt |
impact |
impinge on |
injury |
jar |
jar against |
jolt |
jounce |
kick out |
knock |
knock about |
knock against |
murder |
nub |
occipital protuberance |
polish off |
pounding |
projection |
rap |
reduce |
remove |
run into |
slap |
slay |
smack |
smash |
strike |
strike |
tap |
throw |
throw out |
trauma |
trip the light fantastic |
trip the light fantastic toe |
turf out |
turn out |
wart
Bump In Webster's Dictionary
\Bump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bumped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bumping}.] [Cf. W. pwmp round mass, pwmpiaw to thump, bang,
and E. bum, v. i., boom to roar.]
To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to
thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
\Bump\, v. i.
To come in violent contact with something; to thump.
``Bumping and jumping.'' --Southey.
\Bump\, n. [From {Bump} to strike, to thump.]
1. A thump; a heavy blow.
2. A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a
protuberance.
It had upon its brow A bump as big as a young
cockerel's stone. --Shak.
3. (Phren.) One of the protuberances on the cranium which are
associated with distinct faculties or affections of the
mind; as, the bump of ``veneration;'' the bump of
``acquisitiveness.'' [Colloq.]
4. The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with
the prow of the boat following. [Eng.]
\Bump\, v. i. [See {Boom} to roar.]
To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to
boom.
As a bittern bumps within a reed. --Dryden.
\Bump\, n.
The noise made by the bittern.
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