Definitions for sump

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Spelling: [suhmp]

IPA: /sʌmp/

Sump is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in sump (mpsu).

Definitions for sump

noun

1. a pit, well, or the like in which water or other liquid is collected.
2. Machinery. a chamber at the bottom of a machine, pump, circulation system, etc., into which a fluid drains before recirculation or in which wastes gather before disposal.
3. Mining. a space where water is allowed to collect at the bottom of a shaft or below a passageway. a pilot shaft or tunnel pushed out in front of a main bore.
4. British. crankcase.
5. British Dialect. a swamp, bog, or muddy pool.

Origin of sump

1375-1425; late Middle English sompe Middle Low German or Middle Dutch sump; cognate with German Sumpf; akin to swamp

Examples for sump

But lemme tell ye, thar was more'n sump'n to eat in that bag!

A manhole had to be put in the top and a sump in the bottom.

It may have been on the office sofa or it may have been in the sump.

"He wuz jes signin' some kin' er deeds or sump'n," said Daddy.

"I got sump'n to tell you," said July, hastening to change an embarrassing subject.

That was the purpose of the four nuclear pumps in the sump hole.

We've got a good quarter-mile of deep rock for the sump hole.

Because, as he was prone to admit to himself, "dey was sump'in' in de unnerstannin'."

Ef I ain't done come traipsin' off en lef' my ole man money-pus, en he got sump'n' in dar w'at he won't take a purty fer, needer!

Those vapors condense into a liquid later in the process and that “condensate” is collected in a storage area, called a sump.