clump | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clunk, thud, thump, thumping |
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(noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, cluster, clustering |
(noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, glob, lump |
(verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, cluster |
(verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clomp |
(verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: cluster, constellate, flock |
(verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clunk, plunk |
clumping | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clunking |
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flump | (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
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(verb) fall heavily | Synonyms: flump down |
galumph | (verb) move around heavily and clumsily | - |
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kalumpang | (noun) large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food | Synonyms: Java olives, Sterculia foetida |
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lump | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, clump, glob |
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(noun) a large piece of something without definite shape | Synonyms: hunk |
(noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, stumblebum |
(noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: puffiness, swelling |
(verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: chunk, collocate |
(verb) put together indiscriminately | Synonyms: chunk |
lumpectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a tumor without removing much of the surrounding tissue or lymph nodes; performed in some cases of breast cancer | - |
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lumpen | (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpish, unthinking |
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lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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lumper | (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics | - |
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(noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, stevedore |
lumpfish | (noun) clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar | Synonyms: Cyclopterus lumpus |
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lumpiness | (noun) The property of being full of lumps, not being smooth. | - |
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lumpish | (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpen, unthinking |
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lumpsucker | (noun) any of several very small lumpfishes | - |
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lumpy | (adjective) having lumps; not smooth and even in texture | - |
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(adjective) like or containing small sticky lumps | Synonyms: chunky |
plump | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: chubby, embonpoint |
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(noun) the sound of a sudden heavy fall | - |
(adverb) straight down especially heavily or abruptly | - |
(verb) give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number | Synonyms: go |
(verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump out |
(verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
(verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plummet |
plumping | (adjective) very large; of exceptional size for its kind | - |
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plumpness | (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: embonpoint, roundness |
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slump | (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, falloff, slack |
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(noun) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment | Synonyms: depression, economic crisis |
(verb) fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly | Synonyms: fall off, sink |
(verb) fall or sink heavily | Synonyms: sink, slide down |
(verb) assume a drooping posture or carriage | Synonyms: slouch |
(verb) fall in value | Synonyms: correct, decline |
slumpflation | (noun) a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation. | - |
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