Bumping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BUMPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• knock or run into someone or something with a jolt
• meet by chance
• hurt or damage (something) by striking it on something else
• (in a race) gain a bump against.
• move or travel with much jolting
• push (something) jerkily in a specified direction
• refuse (a passenger) a reserved place on a flight because of deliberate overbooking by the airline
• displace from a job, especially in favour of someone else
NOUN:
• the act of bumping
• a light blow or a jolting collision
• (in races where boats make a spaced start one behind another) the point at which a boat begins to overtake or touch the boat ahead, thereby defeating it.
• a protuberance on a level surface
• a swelling on the skin, especially one caused by illness or injury
• an increase
• a loosely woven fleeced cotton fabric used in upholstery and as lining material.
• (on a person's birthday) a custom by which the person is lifted by the arms and legs and let down on to the ground, once for each year of their age
• a rising air current causing an irregularity in an aircraft's motion.
• a lump on a person's skull, formerly thought to indicate a particular mental faculty.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to knock against

Words related to BUMPING

bump10 bumped13 bumps11

Words that contain BUMPING

bumpings15

How to use BUMPING in a sentence

• He lifted himself onto the sill of the first window, bumping his nose sharply against the pane of the glass.
• This worried but did not hurt her, and she proceeded down the trench at a steady trot, bumping into the traverses.
• Those charged with awakening her, gloomy and timid, were marching in line through the corridors of the jail, bumping into one another in their nervous precipitation.
• What he brought with him on these occasions was a simplicity so huge that, as I turn my ear to the past, I seem even now to hear it bumping up and down my stairs.
• There is no doubt that the bumping of the sledges close at the heels of the animals is the root of the evil.
• The tide was high now, and we passed with the reversed current under the bridge, almost bumping our heads against the timbers.
• The bat wheeled around, blind in the daylight, and went bumping against the girls, causing them to run in alarm lest it should get entangled in their hair.
• Schooner was bumping hard on the waves and making water through her seams.
• I turned to the north and felt my way among the rocks, grazing here, bumping there, but moving so gently that no great harm was done.
• At last, however, the bumping of the road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, and the carriage came to a stand.
• Before the piping times of peace came he had known what it was to charge with a party right amongst a gang of desperate fellows who were bumping kegs ashore.
• In this race it is often better to run two aisles at a time and thus avoid the possibility of pupils bumping into each other in their attempt to race through the aisles.
• It was swaying from side to side, and we could hear the wheels bumping on the stones.
• And what do you know, bumping into old Carl like that I Cynthia and he were friends, too, the best friends in the world, but she no longer wanted to marry him.
• He was, therefore, not a little startled at being disturbed in his capture of a fat black spider by a sound of something bumping against the iron bars.
• In half an hour the two were seated in the carriage, an actual, party-going, city hack, and bumping gaily on the way to the Ball.
• Forrester and Milton steered a zigzag course about the menacing rocks, grazing and bumping them now and again, but emerging finally, without accident, in quieter waters.
• We took it, bumping over heaps of debris, and then swept around into the square.
• The tyre popped off with a report like that of a small revolver, and the next second I was bumping on the frame.
• The car with its human freight, swaying, bumping, sliding, is heavy on the wrist.
• We were left with our rack and traverse sleds, scraping and bumping over logs and stones.
• It was then that we realized that the sound was the pursuing car, bumping along slowly on four flat tires.
• He found it awkward work at first to keep to the trail and to avoid bumping the canoe into the trees.
• He started toward Jake, trying to avoid bumping into Chris.
• We bounded forward, and I heard the little groom bumping on the back seat.
• I sat down on the rock and I had to keep swallowing, because I felt as if my heart were bumping up against my throat.
• The cars kept rumbling up the hill and bumping down the hill.
• The bumping was due to the fact that the driver, by a too violent application of the brake, had changed the form of two of its wheels from circular to oval.
• I even went the length of bumping into him on purpose.
• The noise of him bumping down the ladder was what first fetched me awake.

Similar words containing BUMP without suffix ing

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