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lump
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- pronunciation:
- luhmp
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb)
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a small mass or pile with no special shape; hunk.
He took a lump of clay and made it into a vase.- similar words:
- chunk, clod, clump, mass
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| definition 2: |
a bump or swelling.
I had a lump on my forehead from running into a tree.- synonyms:
- bump, swelling
- similar words:
- bulge, growth, tumor
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| related words: |
clot |
adjective + (n.)lump
awkward,
bloody,
brown,
burning,
cancerous,
dark,
dense,
gray,
hard,
irregular,
jumbo,
malignant,
odd,
painful,
round,
shapeless,
shiny,
smooth,
solid,
sudden,
suspicious,
swelling,
swollen,
uncomfortable,
visible
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verb + (n.)lump
detect, discover, dissolve, feel, finger, freeze, invest, knead, mash, melt, notice, pound, remove, rub, smooth, stir, swallow, whisk
(n.)lump
+ verb
bulge, form, rise, shape, stuff, sum, swell, thicken, toss
noun + (n.)lump
exam, fin, removal, retirement, surgeon, thigh
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
lumps, lumping, lumped |
| definition 1: |
to gather into or consider as a single whole (often followed by "together").
He lumps girls together as if they were all the same.- synonyms:
- combine, unite
- similar words:
- accumulate, assemble, blend, bunch, collect, fuse, gather, mix, unify
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| definition 2: |
to come to have or be formed into a lump or lumps.
If you don't stir the oatmeal while you cook it, it will lump.- similar words:
- clot, congeal
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adverb + (v.)lump
often, simply
(v.)lump
+ adverb
together
(v.)lump
+ noun
category, heading, species, term, umbrella
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