Synonyms for BUMP
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1. bumpnoun

   a lump on the body caused by a blow

   Synonyms:
   protrusion, extrusion, hump, excrescence, blow, protuberance, prominence, swelling, gibbousness, jut, gibbosity, bulge

2. bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescencenoun

   something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

   "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"

   Synonyms:
   swelling, lump, expulsion, protrusion, prominence, gibbousness, jut, jutting, intumescence, extrusion, bulge, projection, protuberance, gibbosity, intumescency, bump, blow, puffiness, hump, excrescence

3. blow, bumpverb

   an impact (as from a collision)

   "the bump threw him off the bicycle"

   Synonyms:
   swelling, nose candy, reversal, bump, setback, gibbousness, jut, snow, coke, shock, extrusion, black eye, bulge, reverse, protuberance, gibbosity, puff, protrusion, blow, gust, prominence, hump, blast, excrescence

4. bump, knockverb

   knock against with force or violence

   "My car bumped into the tree"

   Synonyms:
   criticise, encounter, happen, chance, relegate, bump, rap, tap, pink, knock, demote, break, kick downstairs, ping, find, pick apart, criticize, strike hard, dislodge

5. find, happen, chance, bump, encounterverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   line up, detect, recover, kick downstairs, find oneself, befall, take chances, get, get hold, run across, gamble, demote, fall out, find, pass off, retrieve, hazard, knock, rule, notice, meet, chance, determine, see, find out, come about, come up, play, take a chance, encounter, materialize, happen, go on, receive, feel, occur, risk, pass, incur, take place, come across, bechance, observe, run into, adventure, witness, dislodge, run a risk, ascertain, relegate, bump, take on, hap, break, regain, obtain, materialise, discover

6. bumpverb

   dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward

   "bump and grind"

   Synonyms:
   kick downstairs, encounter, find, chance, dislodge, knock, demote, happen, break, relegate

7. demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairsverb

   assign to a lower position; reduce in rank

   "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant"

   Synonyms:
   crack, bar, give way, violate, break dance, give out, unwrap, fall apart, collapse, die, classify, transgress, founder, weaken, discover, snap off, stop, go, demote, break out, separate, split, give away, damp, smash, happen, knock, interrupt, offend, get out, fracture, relegate, bring out, soften, reveal, divulge, pause, let on, get around, bust, wear out, cave in, encounter, break-dance, check, break up, breach, break in, give, split up, chance, better, burst, go bad, break off, disclose, find, erupt, recrudesce, submit, go against, dampen, break down, break away, fall in, bump, let out, conk out, ruin, kick downstairs, part, infract, fail, come apart, bankrupt, develop, expose, break, banish, discontinue, intermit, dislodge, wear, pass on

8. dislodge, bumpverb

   remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied

   "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"

   Synonyms:
   demote, kick downstairs, knock, shift, chance, dislodge, encounter, free, reposition, happen, bump, break, relegate, find

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1. bumpnoun

   Synonyms:
   thump, knock, blow

2. bumpnoun

   Synonyms:
   swelling, protuberance

3. bumpnoun

   Synonyms:
   [colloquial, in allusion to the doctrine of phrenology that protuberances on the skull indicate faculties of the mind.] Faculty, power, endowment, gift

4. bumpverb

   Synonyms:
   knock, thump, strike, hit

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bumpnoun

   Synonyms:
   protuberance, prominence, lump, nodule, swelling

2. bumpverb

   Synonyms:
   jolt, jounce, thump

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1. List of paraphrases for "bump":

   hump, damper

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1. Nancy Perez:

   We have been getting a bump in profit margins due to lower taxes but the earnings growth itself is not sustainable, projections will come down and volatility will continue.

2. Chris Sununu:

   They came in and changed the rules to fit their agenda. You are seeing Republican governors as the last line of defense against not just a socialist agenda but true socialism, that's what is happening with the executive orders. The biggest thing hitting America is inflation. [ Treasury ] Secretary Janet Yellen said we'd have a bump in inflation. We are on the verge of hyper-inflation and supply chain issues.

3. Jake Tapper:

   So, the hospitals are still stretched thin because of this ... but if 40% in some hospitals- 40% of the people who have COVID don't necessarily have problematic COVID- they're there because they got in a car accident, they're there because, you know, they bump their head, and they're being included as ‘in the hospital with COVID,’ that number seems kind of misleading.

4. Matthew Costello:

   Sometimes they bump them down the road a bit.

5. Barbara Ferrer:

   This would not be the time to think just because we are reopening that things are looking rosy, we do need to move through the next few weeks with caution. At many other points where we've been reopening our sectors, we in fact have seen a bump up in our cases.