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Defenition of the word bump

    • Defenition of the word bump

      • To impact with another object, resulting in a change of direction and/or velocity of one or both objects.
      • A local swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
      • To encounter something by accident or after searching for it.
      • A hard and loud hit received by someone when falling.
      • something that protrudes
      • a lump on the body caused by a blow
      • dance erotically, as in "bump and grind": dance with the pelvis thrust forward
      • an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle"
      • knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"
      • assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"
      • remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
      • 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"
      • something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form
      • dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; "bump and grind"
      • assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sargeant"
      • an impact (as from a collision)
      • something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
      • knock against with force or violence
      • remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
      • dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward
      • come upon, as if by accident; meet with
      • assign to a lower position; reduce in rank

    Synonyms for the word bump

      • blow
      • break
      • bulge
      • chance
      • demote
      • dislodge
      • displace
      • encounter
      • excrescence
      • extrusion
      • find
      • gibbosity
      • gibbousness
      • happen
      • hit
      • hump
      • jut
      • kick downstairs
      • knock
      • prominence
      • protrusion
      • protuberance
      • relegate
      • swelling

    Similar words in the bump

      • batter
      • buffet
      • bump into
      • bump off
      • butt against
      • dispatch
      • hit
      • jar against
      • knock about
      • knock against
      • murder
      • polish off
      • remove
      • run into
      • slay

    Hyponyms for the word bump

      • bang
      • bash
      • belly
      • belt
      • buffeting
      • caput
      • concussion
      • frontal eminence
      • jar
      • jolt
      • jounce
      • knock
      • mogul
      • nub
      • nubble
      • occipital protuberance
      • pounding
      • rap
      • reduce
      • shock
      • sideline
      • sideswipe
      • slap
      • smack
      • smash
      • snag
      • strike
      • tap
      • throw
      • wart

    Hypernyms for the word bump

      • assign
      • boot out
      • chuck out
      • collide with
      • dance
      • delegate
      • depute
      • designate
      • displace
      • eject
      • exclude
      • expel
      • harm
      • hit
      • hurt
      • impact
      • impinge on
      • injury
      • kick out
      • projection
      • run into
      • strike
      • surname
      • throw out
      • trauma
      • trip the light fantastic
      • trip the light fantastic toe
      • turf out
      • turn out

    Antonyms for the word bump

      • advance
      • elevate
      • kick upstairs
      • promote
      • raise
      • upgrade

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