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| Main Entry: | bump |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | collide, hit, usually with sound |
| Synonyms: | bang, bounce, box, buck, bunt, butt, carom, clap, clatter, crack, crash, impinge, jar, jerk, jolt, jostle, jounce, knock, pat, plunk, pound, punch, rap, rattle, shake, slam, slap, smack, strike, thud, thump, thunder, thwack, whack, plop, smash into |
| Main Entry: | bump |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move over, dislodge |
| Synonyms: | budge, displace, remove, shift |
| Main Entry: | buffet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit repeatedly |
| Synonyms: | bang, batter, beat, blow, box, bump, clobber, cuff, flail, jolt, knock, pound, pummel, push, rap, shove, slap, smack, spank, strike, thrash, thump, wallop |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swollen object |
| Synonyms: | appendage, blob, bump, bunch, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, growth, hump, jut, lump, outgrowth, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, salient, superfluity, swelling, tumor, wart, bagginess, bunching, convexity, gibbosity, intumescence, nodulation, nodule, outthrust, sagging, salience, tuberosity, tumefaction |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | clatter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | crash; make racket |
| Synonyms: | bang, bluster, bump, clang, clank, clash, hurtle, noise, rattle, roar, shatter, smash |
| Main Entry: | collide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | slam into |
| Synonyms: | bang, beat, break up, bump, clash, conflict, crash, crunch*, disagree, fragment, hit, jolt, pulverize*, scrap*, shatter, smash, splinter, strike, fender-bend, meet head-on, pile up*, plow into, sideswipe, wrack up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | collision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident |
| Synonyms: | blow, bump, butt, concussion, contact, crash, destruction, dilapidation, encounter, fender bender*, hit, impact, jar, jolt, knock, percussion, pileup*, rap, ruin, shock, slam, smash, strike, thud, thump, wreck, demolishment, head-on, sideswipe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | concussion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collision, shaking |
| Synonyms: | blast, blow, bump, clash, clout, crack, crash, hit, impact, injury, jar, jarring, jolt, jounce, punch, shock, trauma, buffeting, jolting, pounding |
| Main Entry: | contusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bruise, injury |
| Synonyms: | bang, bump, cut, discoloration, knock, mouse, swelling, wale, wound |
| Main Entry: | degrade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shame, humiliate |
| Synonyms: | abase, belittle, bench, break, bump, bust, canker, cheapen, corrupt, debase, debauch, decry, degenerate, demean, demote, depose, deprave, derogate, deteriorate, detract, diminish, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disparage, downgrade, humble, impair, injure, lessen, lower, pan*, pervert, put down, reduce, rule out, run down*, sink, slam, take down*, tear down*, vitiate, weaken, bemean, cast down, cut down to size, declass, disbar, mudsling, shoot down*, take down a peg |
| Antonyms: | admire, approve, elevate, honor, promote, upgrade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | downgrade, lower in rank |
| Synonyms: | bench*, break, bump, bust, degrade, demean, demerit, dismiss, hold back, lower, reduce, relegate, set back, declass, disrate, kick downstairs |
| Antonyms: | improve, promote, rate, upgrade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | downgrade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lower in opinion or rank |
| Synonyms: | abase, bench*, break*, bump*, bust*, decrease, decry, degrade, demerit, demote, denigrate, depreciate, devalue, disparage, humble, minimize, reduce, run down, set back, undervalue, write off*, declass, detract from, devalorize, disrate, mark down, take down a peg |
| Antonyms: | improve, promote, raise, upgrade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eject |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw or be thrown out |
| Synonyms: | banish, bounce*, bump, debar, discharge, disgorge, dislodge, dismiss, displace, dispossess, ditch, do away with*, dump*, eighty-six*, ejaculate, eliminate, emit, eradicate, erupt, evict, exclude, expel, extrude, fire, get rid of, kick out*, oust, reject, rout, sack, send packing*, spew, spout, turn out, vomit, cast out, disbar, drive off, eruct, expulse, force out, give the boot, heave out, irrupt, kiss goodbye, show the gate to, spit out, squeeze out, throw overboard, unloose |
| Antonyms: | take in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elbow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push aside |
| Synonyms: | bend, bulldoze, bump, crowd, hook, hustle, jostle, knock, nudge, press, shoulder, shove, rough and tumble |
| Main Entry: | happen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to pass; occur |
| Synonyms: | appear, arise, arrive, befall, betide, bump, chance, come about, come off, develop, down, ensue, eventuate, fall, follow, go on, hit, issue, light, luck, materialize, meet, pass, proceed, recur, result, shake, smoke*, spring, stumble, transpire, turn out, turn up, be found, become a fact, become known, become of, come after, come into being, come into existence, crop up, present itself, stumble upon, supervene, take effect, take place, what goes |
| Notes: | happen means to come to pass or occur; transpire means to come to be known or come to light |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swelling, projection |
| Synonyms: | bulge, bump, dune, elevation, eminence, excrescence, hill, hunch, knob, mound, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, ridge, swell, convexedness, convexity, gibbosity, hummock, knap, knurl, kyphosis, tumescence |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | hurtle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plunge, charge |
| Synonyms: | bump, collide, fly, lunge, push, race, rush, scoot, scramble, shoot, speed, spurt, tear, rush headlong |
| Main Entry: | jab |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | poke |
| Synonyms: | blow, buck, bump, bunt, dig, hit, jog, lunge, nudge, prod, punch, push, stab, tap, thrust |
| Main Entry: | jerk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move with lurch |
| Synonyms: | bounce, bump, dance, flick, fling, flip, flop, grab, hook, hurtle, jolt, lug, pluck, pull, quake, quiver, seize, shiver, sling, snag, snatch, throw, thrust, tug, tweak, twitch, whisk, wiggle, wrench, wrest, wriggle, wring, yank, shrug, vellicate |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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