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Meanings of bump in English
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.
Synonyms
Examples for "swelling"
Examples for "swelling"
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The violence is swelling Somalia's more than 1 million internal refugee population.
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Generation O Slang term for today's swelling population of dangerously obese children.
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I'd heard once that elevation was good for injuries that involved swelling.
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Yet even as he rode, he felt himself swelling, growing in power.
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Others stayed, swelling the ranks of Islamic State with mid-level security veterans.
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It's possible even that Burnham received a card, given his new prominence.
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He achieved wider prominence for his claims during the EU referendum campaign.
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Photograph: Handout Its rise to prominence has disturbed many Iraqi political leaders.
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Landmarks were lost in the velvet dark; new features sprang into prominence.
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The prominence given to personal references is very marked and equally natural.
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We are going to work really hard to get over the hump.
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He watched a tiny hump of land far across the starboard bow.
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The upper deck in the hump traditionally houses the business class section.
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Unfortunately for Abbie, the date concludes and not one hump is thrust.
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The hump rose up and took on the dimensions of an animal.
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Wherever we see a bulge, there's a sea on the sunlit side.
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We had the bulge before; he has it now; it's perfectly fair.
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She was a natural really, hardly much of a bulge at all.
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From the deck they were hidden by the bulge of the world.
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The veins in her hands bulge and I look the other way.
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The North and South Dragon's Horns jut out of the jungle floor.
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Often the stories of the houses jut out, one over the other.
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The rocks jut boldly out, and throw strange shadows on the pool.
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And then she looked at the determined jut of her aunt's jaw.
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There are places where rocks jut out for us to stumble over.
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There was body protrusion from vehicles in clear breach of traffic rules.
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Conclusion: Treating thoracolumbar disc protrusion via anterolateral approach is safe and effective.
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Presently she was aware of a protrusion from the window beneath hers.
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Cell migration is commonly accompanied by protrusion of membrane ruffles and lamellipodia.
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On mid-term follow-up, coil protrusion into the aorta seems to be benign.
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Bows of ribbon are attached to every possible protuberance of the furniture.
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Fortunately for aesthetes the JS5's vast protuberance was banned after three races.
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To commence then:-Thenose, according to Bartholinus, is that protuberance-thatbump-that excrescence-that-
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At one point in the drawing a peculiar protuberance was marked.
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Then carefully tasting the protuberance in the centre, he spat it out, crying,-
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Conclusion: Fracture with extrusion is a potential consequence of a retained microguidewires.
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Preoperative meniscus extrusion was found to be positively correlated with final extrusion.
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The garuda hauled himself towards them over the cracked extrusion of roof.
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The firm is to open a new aluminium extrusion plant in Little Island.
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RasV12 cells are eliminated apically, suggesting that extrusion may be a tumor-suppressive process.
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They seemed to start and finish abruptly-anexcrescence in the all-pervadingflatness.
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Only the queer excrescence on its top moved, and that stirred vaguely.
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They are an excrescence which afflicts oak trees - the knopper gall.
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Their woody bones were bowed, their skins corticate and boiling with excrescence.
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It was smooth, moreover, offering neither knot nor excrescence for a foothold.
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Its caverns, its excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and grinned beneath the smoke.
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And Dominica draws nearer,-sharplymassing her hills against the vast light in purple nodes and gibbosities and denticulations.
Usage of bump in English
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Kurt'll probably ask you to help him bump off George next week.
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Fitch said banks could also seek riskier activities to bump up ROEs.
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Just remember you'll feel every little bump on your way home tonight.
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England do have a minor road bump in their way this week.
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The speed bump simply doesn't give us any justification for delaying action.
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Brown made two free throws to bump the margin to 17 points.
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But one came in with an almighty bump about six months ago.
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The two would bump into one another at Borough Market most weeks.
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We positively yearn to bump into people whose work we've just ridiculed.
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Other sectors like healthcare and food delivery have also seen a bump.
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There was still no visible bump and thankfully I was feeling good.
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But as Jonathan Mitchell reports, the issue's hit yet another speed bump.
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ANOTHER day, another potential baby bump spotted on Jasmine Yarbrough's Instagram feed.
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Although I'm sure we'll bump into each other one day in Austin.
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But this would not necessarily bump the price up in New Zealand.
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An unfortunate bump dispersed my blankets and my ground-sheet in the mud.
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Translations for bump
Catalan
Bump through the time
Bump across language varieties
Australia
Common
United States of America
Less common
South Africa
Less common
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