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lump
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- pronunciation:
- luhmp
- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb)
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a mass or pile, esp. a small one.
a lump of clay- synonyms:
- gob, gobbet
- similar words:
- chunk, clod, clump, mass, nub
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| definition 2: |
a bump or swelling, as on the body.
- synonyms:
- bump, protuberance, swelling
- similar words:
- bulge, bunch, excrescence, growth, neoplasm, node, nodule, tumor
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| definition 3: |
a small cube of white sugar, used esp. to sweeten hot drinks.
- synonyms:
- sugar
- similar words:
- cube
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| related words: |
clot, knot |
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
in a single unit.
a lump payment- similar words:
- aggregate, total
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
lumps, lumping, lumped |
| definition 1: |
to gather into or consider as a single whole (often fol. by "together").
He lumps all socialists together, as if their views were identical.- synonyms:
- combine, merge, unite
- similar words:
- accumulate, amass, assemble, blend, bunch, collect, fuse, gather, mix, pool, unify
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| definition 2: |
to cause to be formed into a lump or lumps.
- similar words:
- clot, coagulate, congeal
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| related words: |
clump |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to come to have or be formed into a lump or lumps.
- similar words:
- clot, coagulate, congeal
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| related words: |
clump, cohere |
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