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noun

ˈləmp How to pronounce lump (audio)
Definition of lumpnext
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as in chunk
a small uneven mass she dumped a lump of clay on the table and started to sculpt

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as in swelling
a small rounded mass of swollen tissue I got a good-sized lump on my head from that fall

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as in tumor
an abnormal mass of tissue advised by her doctor to examine her breasts regularly for unusual lumps

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as in defeat
failure to win a contest you can't win all the time, so learn to take your lumps in stride

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as in idiot
a stupid person gazed disgustedly at the lump her daughter had married

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as in hulk
a big clumsy often slow-witted person standing next to those ballet dancers, with their graceful way of moving, I felt like a lump

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lump

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verb

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as in to collect
to bring together in one body or place when we lumped all of our pocket change together, we found that we had just enough a buy a carton of ice cream

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as in to shuffle
to move heavily or clumsily while I was on crutches, I was lumping about the house like an elephant

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lump

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adjective

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Recent Examples of lump
Noun
Pastas, all made in house, are a solid choice too—like the Squid Ink Orecchiette with lump crab. — Lanee Lee, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Stocklas was retired by the time of his Powerball win, which netted a lump-sum payment of $191 million. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 28 June 2026
Verb
Which means a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of clinical experience, training in ethics and boundaries, and the ability to recognize a client in crisis gets lumped into the same category as someone who completed a weekend online certification. — Megan Bruneau, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 Daxon Rudolph’s offensive upside Carels, Reid, Šmits and Verhoeff are generally viewed as the top-four defensemen in the class, but some scouts lump Daxon Rudolph into the same tier. — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 19 June 2026
Adjective
Members will also receive raises equal to 6% of wages over the life of the contract, and two lump sum payments equal to 4% of annual wages. — Chris Isidore, CNN, 11 Dec. 2019 The Malaysian government has offered monthly assistance to the unemployed and lump payments to workers in certain sectors. — Matt Apuzzo, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020 See All Example Sentences for lump
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lump
  1. chunk
  2. swelling
  3. tumor
  4. defeat
  5. moron
  6. hulk
  7. collect
  8. shuffle
Noun
  • Add oak chunks in a smoker box or foil packet with ventilation holes.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • Instead of a monthly check, every American would be given an account containing a chunk of equity invested in a broad portfolio.
    — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
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  • About 400 to 500 Americans died of measles each year, while about 1,000 experienced brain swelling and 48,000 were hospitalized, records show.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • There should be no pain or skin reddening during a proper session, and therapists avoid working over active swelling, infection or skin that’s undergone cancer treatment.
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
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  • Various types of cancer, in which malignant tumors invade surrounding tissues, contributed to between 13,000 and 20,000 deaths annually in this time frame.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • Glioblastoma is the most common and most aggressive primary brain tumor in adults, with a median survival of roughly 12 to 16 months even with treatment and a five-year survival rate below 10%.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 3 July 2026
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  • The film culminates in the Battle of the Monongahela in 1755, where Washington steps up and delivers a rousing speech to the British army despite their defeat.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • That conversion and conquest crusade brought disease and defeat to native Californians, whose numbers and ways of life would be all but exterminated by the time the United States of America celebrated its first 100 years.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of defeat
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  • Mantzoukas was willing to look like a maniac and a moron in equal measure.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 June 2026
  • Lluís then calls Puig Antich a moron.
    — Colm Tóibín, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
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  • When Krem takes off in Kara’s spacecraft, a rusted hulk that’s like an interplanetary RV, and shoots her beloved dog Krypto with a lethal tranquilizer that will result in agonizing death in three days, Kara joins Ruthye on her revenge quest.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
  • The hulk has made it to the Seaport once — in September 2024 when it was towed to Pier 17 for a Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Week event.
    — Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026
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Verb
  • The launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base is the first phase in a constellation called FireSat that will eventually cover the globe with 50 satellites collecting high-resolution imagery of fires and conditions on the ground every 20 minutes.
    — Eric Niiler, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • By June, almost half of Emirati crude shipments were sailing on vessels controlled by Sinokor, according to ship tracking data collected by analytics firm Vortexa.
    — Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Definition of collect
Verb
  • As soon as the game wrapped up, those guests shuffled out, and hours later were replaced by a rowdier group ordering shots at the bar, dancing to 2000s hits in front of the DJ booth and smoking vape pens on the outdoor patio.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
  • Pretoria responded to the threat of violence in June 30 protests with millions of dollars shuffled inside the police budget, tactical units deployed, and soldiers on standby.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
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