bump

bump has 16 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• v. t.. To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
• v. i.. To come in violent contact with something; to thump.
• n.. A thump; a heavy blow.
• n.. A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance.
• n.. One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of "acquisitiveness."
• n.. The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.
• v. i.. To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom.
• n.. The noise made by the bittern.
• n.. an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle"
• n.. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"
• n.. a lump on the body caused by a blow
• v.. knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"