Synonyms for pump
pʌmppump

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pump

   Synonyms:
   cross-examine, interrogate, cross-quest iou

   Antonyms:
   prime, indoctrinate, instruct, cram

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1. pumpnoun

   a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction

   Synonyms:
   ticker, heart

2. heart, pump, tickernoun

   the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body

   "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly"

   Synonyms:
   affection, affectionateness, substance, philia, meat, centre, center, tenderness, core, marrow, sum, nerve, ticker, nub, kernel, nitty-gritty, spirit, gist, watch, warmness, inwardness, pith, heart, bosom, essence, mettle, warmheartedness, heart and soul, fondness, spunk, stock ticker, eye, middle

3. pumpverb

   a low-cut shoe without fastenings

   Synonyms:
   ticker, heart

4. pumpverb

   operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal

   "pump the gas pedal"

5. pumpverb

   deliver forth

   "pump bullets into the dummy"

6. pumpverb

   draw or pour with a pump

7. pumpverb

   supply in great quantities

   "Pump money into a project"

8. pumpverb

   flow intermittently

9. pumpverb

   move up and down

   "The athlete pumps weights in the gym"

10. pumpverb

    raise (gases or fluids) with a pump

11. pumpverb

    question persistently

    "She pumped the witnesses for information"

Matched Categories

1. • Draw
   • Handle
   • Internal Organ
   • Mechanical Device
   • Move
   • Question
   • Raise
   • Shoot
   • Spurt
   • Supply

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1. pumpverb

   Synonyms:
   interrogate, question, quiz

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1. List of paraphrases for "pump":

   pumping, bomb, pumps, pompe, bomba, pomp, pdp, pombe, inject, faucet, pumphouse

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1. pump

   Synonyms:
   See Penis pump
   

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1. Gennadiy Goldberg:

   Consumers are putting the money they save at the pump to work.

2. Kevin Feldis:

   This is the first time we have charged Clean Water Act crimes for an actual discharge of oil into the EEZ (exclusive economic zone) off the coast of Alaska, as detailed in the court documents, witnesses saw a sheen off the side of the vessel after the chief engineer hooked up a pump to illegally dump oily bilge water overboard.

3. Arlene Anderson:

   That heat pump is basically run from heat in the ground, the fuel is basically the Earth source heat.

4. David Ferguson:

   He got led down a path wherethey had to stop doingprocedures where they said hewas qualified nonetheless forthe heart transplant.But he had to get the vaccine inorder to get that transplant.He’s deteriorated so much soquickly that they had to resort to open-heart surgery and doing the LVAD [left ventricular assist device] mechanical pump, so now my boy has a pump, he’s inrecovery.He went through seven hours ofsurgery.

5. Jim Carafano:

   They would rather buy oil from our adversaries who will actually use that money to attack American interests than pump oil and gas here, which would actually put more money in the American economy and actually make us more energy independent.