Synonyms for bump

Noun

1. bump, injury, hurt, harm, trauma

usage: a lump on the body caused by a blow

2. bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence, projection

usage: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form

3. bump, blow, impact

usage: an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle"

Verb

1. bump, knock, hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with, bump into

usage: knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"

2. find, happen, chance, bump, encounter

usage: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"

3. bump, dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe

usage: dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; "bump and grind"

4. demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs, delegate, designate, depute, assign, bump off

usage: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sargeant"

5. dislodge, displace, bump, expel, eject, chuck out, exclude, throw out, kick out, turf out, boot out, turn out

usage: remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"