pump

pump is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A low shoe with a thin sole. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A low shoe with a thin sole.
2. noun. An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.
3. transitive verb. To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
4. transitive verb. To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.
5. transitive verb. Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.
6. intransitive verb. To work, or raise water, a pump.
7. noun. a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction
8. noun. a low-cut shoe without fastenings
9. noun. the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body

   "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly"

   Synonyms: heart, ticker

10. verb. question persistently

    "She pumped the witnesses for information"

11. verb. deliver forth

    "pump bullets into the dummy"

12. verb. operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal

    "pump the gas pedal"

13. verb. raise (gases or fluids) with a pump
14. verb. move up and down

    "The athlete pumps weights in the gym"

15. verb. draw or pour with a pump
16. verb. flow intermittently
17. verb. supply in great quantities

    "Pump money into a project"

Synonyms

heart, ticker

Common word forms

pumps, pumped, pumper, pumping, pumpable, pumpless

Words from these letters

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