Bump

Quick meaning: Bump is a noun meaning A light blow or jolting collision.

Meaning

A light blow or jolting collision.

More Meanings

1. The sound of such a collision.
2. A protuberance on a level surface.
3. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
4. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
5. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
6. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
7. (obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymic) the faculty itself

Example Sentences

His car had a tiny bump with a moving bus.

the bump of veneration; the bump of acquisitiveness

It had upon its brow / A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone.

US presidential nominees get a post-convention bump in survey ratings.

Word Forms

• bumps
• bumping
• bumped

Synonyms for bump

Depending on context, synonyms include break, encounter, chance, hit, bulge, prominence.

Antonyms for bump

Common opposites include advance, promote, elevate, raise, upgrade.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include knock, hit, blow, jut, protrusion, break.

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