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/sʌmp/ · noun
A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink..
then, seating himself thus, he replied to him of the east.—'Sounding sump o' rain Saunders Creeshmeloof—saw ye ever a drap o' rain for eight and forty hours after the bonnie sinking sun that sat sae red and sae lang on the summit of Blackwood hills this blessed afternoon? That starry plow o' thine is […]'
"Me and the lads did it this morn." "It was pouring!" Brody said. "If I was tae stop an activity because of a sump o' rain, I'd never get anythin' done," Finn remarked with a twinkle in his eye.
We discovered a new passage, but it sumped after 100 metres.
This low passage sumps quickly after moderate rainfall.
Use sump when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sump means A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink..
Common synonyms include sink, cesspool, cesspit.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
then, seating himself thus, he replied to him of the east.—'Sounding sump o' rain Saunders Creeshmeloof—saw ye ever a drap o' rain for eight and forty hours after the bonnie sinking sun that sat sae red and sae lang on the summit of Blackwood hills this blessed afternoon? That starry plow o' thine is […]'
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