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bump
has definitions from the fields of medicine,dance
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[ verb ] knock against with force or violence
Synonyms Examples "My car bumped into the tree" Used in print (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)Their father , when he came_back from those many business trips , just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox . |
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[ verb ] (dance) dance erotically, as in "bump and grind": dance with the pelvis thrust forward
Used in print (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)`` We bump '' , one said ; and the other went_on to development of the idea . Related terms |
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[ verb ] come upon, as if by accident; meet with
Examples "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" Used in print (Sexology, 28:1...)One is always a_little surprised to bump into such individual distinctions when it is unexpected . |
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[ verb ] assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
Synonyms Examples "She was demoted because she always speaks up" "He was broken down to Sargeant" Related terms |
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[ verb ] remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
Examples "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space" Related terms |
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[ noun ] something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form
Related terms projection spur wart nub occipital_protuberance frontal_eminence belly mogul caput snag bulge protrude hunch bulge |
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[ noun ] (medicine) a lump on the body caused by a blow
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 6982
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