bumped (verb)

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• bump off — verb kill intentionally and with premeditation (Freq. 2) The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered • Syn: ↑murder, ↑slay, ↑hit, ↑dispatch, ↑off, ↑polish off, ↑remove …   Useful english dictionary

• bump up — verb increase or raise OPEC bumped up the price of oil • Hypernyms: ↑raise • Verb Frames: Somebody s something * * * bump up [phrasal verb] bump up (something or someone) or bump (something or someone) up …   Useful english dictionary

• bump into — verb a) To collide with. He bumped into the wall. I guess thats a risk you take when you read while walking. b) To cause (a thing) to collide with. The roads were so slippery that I couldnt stop, and I bumped my car into the car in front of me …   Wiktionary

• bump into — verb collide violently with an obstacle (Freq. 1) I ran into the telephone pole • Syn: ↑run into, ↑jar against, ↑butt against, ↑knock against • Hypernyms: ↑hit, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• see stars — verb To experience apparent flashing lights in ones field of vision, especially after receiving a blow to the head. Of course they bumped their heads smartly together, saw stars, and both came up flushed and laughing, without the ball, to resume… …   Wiktionary

• flip the bird — verb To make a rude or obscene gesture (at somebody); particularly, to extend the middle finger. I accidentally bumped into him, and he flipped me the bird. Syn: flick off, flip off …   Wiktionary

• bump — bump1 [ bʌmp ] verb * 1. ) transitive to accidentally hit part of your body against something, making it hurt: Be careful not to bump your head. a ) intransitive or transitive to hit against something solid once or many times: Small boats were… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• bump — 1 verb 1 (intransitive always + adv/prep, transitive) to hit or knock against something (+ against/into etc): It was so dark I bumped into a tree | bump sth on/against etc: I bumped my head on the ledge. 2 (intransitive always + adv/prep) to move …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• bump — [[t]bʌ̱mp[/t]] bumps, bumping, bumped 1) VERB If you bump into something or someone, you accidentally hit them while you are moving. [V into/against n] They stopped walking and he almost bumped into them... [V into/against n] There was a jerk as… …   English dictionary

• bump — I. noun Etymology: probably imitative of the sound of a blow Date: 1581 1. a relatively abrupt convexity or protuberance on a surface: as a. a swelling of tissue b. a cranial protuberance 2. a. a sudden forceful blow, impact, or jolt b. demotion… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Reconstruction of automobile destruction — was a psychological study carried out by Elizabeth Loftus and Palmer in 1974 [ [http://www.qeliz.ac.uk/psychology/Loftus%20and%20Palmer.htm Loftus + Palmer (1974) ] ] . The aim of the study was to investigate whether or not an eye witness s… …   Wikipedia