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Word entry · 4 letters

bump

Best crossword clue

"Small raised spot"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /bʌmp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted bmpuStarts with BEnds with P1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. knock against with force or violence

Word origin

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.

Used in a sentence

  • His car had a tiny bump with a moving bus.
  • He heard a loud bump and saw the front part of his car was broken and the driver of the other car was running to apologise.
  • It had upon its brow / A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone.

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