lump
verb/lʌmp/
/lʌmp/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they lump | /lʌmp/ /lʌmp/ |
| he / she / it lumps | /lʌmps/ /lʌmps/ |
| past simple lumped | /lʌmpt/ /lʌmpt/ |
| past participle lumped | /lʌmpt/ /lʌmpt/ |
| -ing form lumping | /ˈlʌmpɪŋ/ /ˈlʌmpɪŋ/ |
- to put or consider different things together in the same group, even when they are actually quite different
- lump A and B together You can't lump all English dialects together.
- lump A (in) with B They hated being lumped in with teen pop bands.
Word Originverb Middle English: perhaps from a Germanic base meaning ‘shapeless piece’; compare with Danish lump ‘lump’, Norwegian and Swedish dialect lump ‘block, log’, and Dutch lomp ‘rag’. lump it. late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘look sulky’): symbolic of displeasure; compare with words such as dump and grump. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See lump in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee lump in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishlump it
- (informal) to accept something unpleasant because there’s no other choice
- I'm sorry you're not happy about it but you'll just have to lump it.
- That's the situation—like it or lump it!
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