clump

clump is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 16 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
2. noun. A cluster; a group; a thicket.
3. noun. The compressed clay of coal strata.
4. transitive verb. To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.
5. intransitive verb. To tread clumsily; to clamp.
6. noun. a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

   Synonyms: clunk, thud, thump, thumping

7. noun. a grouping of a number of similar things

   "a bunch of trees"

   "a cluster of admirers"

   Synonyms: bunch, cluster, clustering

8. noun. a compact mass

   "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"

   Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, glob, lump

9. verb. gather or cause to gather into a cluster

   "She bunched her fingers into a fist"

   Synonyms: bunch, bundle, cluster

10. verb. walk clumsily

    Synonyms: clomp

11. verb. come together as in a cluster or flock

    "The poets constellate in this town every summer"

    Synonyms: cluster, constellate, flock

12. verb. make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

    Synonyms: clop, clunk, plunk

Synonyms

clunk, thud, thump, thumping, bunch, cluster, clustering, ball, chunk, clod, glob, lump, bundle, clomp, constellate, flock, clop, plunk

Common word forms

clumps, clumped, clumper, clumping

Words from these letters

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