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US
/ˈɫəmp/
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[ UK /lˈʌmp/ ]
[ UK /lˈʌmp/ ]
NOUN
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a large piece of something without definite shape
a hunk of bread
a lump of coal - an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
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a compact mass
a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder - an awkward stupid person
VERB
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put together indiscriminately
lump together all the applicants - group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
How To Use lump In A Sentence
- Deefer took others off to see if there might not be a few plump wherries in the hills; they would make a nice change from the tough herdbeast meat, the supply of which was now virtually ex - hausted. Nerilka's Story
- But it is worthwhile teasing this apart a little, unbinding the different aspects of rhetorics lumped together in one component and separating out the semiotic layering (i.e. the use of metaphor and metonym) stuck in with the second. On the Sublime
- She slumped down in her chair and tried to absorb this violent, absurd disruption to her well-ordered life. LADY BE GOOD
- The clump is the den area, and to the right are a couple of badger kids. Archive 2009-06-01
- He was a scrawny Barbary Macaque with matted, clumpy hair. BETTER LESSONS • by Aaron Polson
- My hand came into contact with a small lump.
- Everything else is kind of lumped into the "overbooked" category that people say we see far too often in TNA. PWTorch.com
- Second, lump sum payments are worked out on the basis of an assumed life expectancy.
- ‘We tooted and tooted,’ says Harry, ‘until the white sugar lump melted into the pale horizon.’
- Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism