Definitions for lump

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lump lump

Spelling: [luhmp]

IPA: /lʌmp/

Lump is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in lump (lmpu).

Definitions for lump

noun

1. a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape:
2. a protuberance or swelling:
3. an aggregation, collection, or mass; clump:
4. Also called lump of sugar. a small block of granulated sugar, designed for sweetening hot coffee, tea, etc.:
5. majority; plurality; multitude:
6. lumps, Informal. harsh criticism, punishment, or defeat:
7. Informal. a heavy, clumsy, and usually stupid person.

Idioms

1. get / take one's lumps, to receive or endure hardship, punishment, criticism, etc.:

adjective

1. in the form of a lump or lumps:
2. made up of a number of items taken together; not separated or considered separately:

verb (used with object)

1. to unite into one aggregation, collection, or mass (often followed by together):
2. to deal with, handle, consider, etc., in the lump or mass:
3. to make into a lump or lumps:
4. to raise into or cover with lumps:
5. to put up with; resign oneself to; accept and endure:

verb (used without object)

1. to form or raise a lump or lumps:
2. to move heavily and awkwardly:

Origin of lump

1250-1300; Middle English lumpe, lomp(e); cognate with early Dutch lompe piece, Danish lump(e) lump, dialectal Norwegian lump block

Examples for lump

One morning in late December, Sclove told me she awoke to discover a lump on her lower spine.

Your mind is so set on yourself that you're like a lump of stone.

The lump, it turned out, was the result of a dislocated vertebrae.

With that he ups with a lump of a two year old, and lets drive at me.

If the Americans are going to lump them together with ISIS, maybe best to join forces.

The Little Doctor was struggling with the lump in her throat that he should try to joke about it.

French President François Hollande is telling the French people they should “not lump them together.”

Alleyne said nothing, but his heart seemed to turn to a lump of ice in his bosom.

Lieutenant Roger Fenton had a lump in his throat when he said good-bye to his boys.

The one-time anti-bullying champion let his attorney seek to lump the victim together with the victimizer.