LUMPED Synonyms: 115 Similar and Opposite Words

lumped

verb

past tense of lump

as in assembled

to bring together in one body or place when we lumped all of our pocket change together, we found that we had just enough a buy a carton of ice cream

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as in shuffled

to move heavily or clumsily while I was on crutches, I was lumping about the house like an elephant

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Recent Examples of lumped Cyber stocks late last year and into 2026 were being lumped into the awful enterprise software trade. — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026 They were also lumped in with ska and reggae acts like the Slackers, Agent 99, and 32 Tribes. — Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026 And so the homicide became a misdemeanor, lumped alongside petty theft and drug possession cases. — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Abdul El-Sayed, the front-runner in Michigan’s Democratic primary for Senate, is sometimes lumped together with other rising stars on the left. — David Remnick, New Yorker, 31 July 2026 Intellectually and temperamentally, the Frenchmen were a diverse group, forever being lumped together and divided up under various shifting labels—Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, postmodernism. — Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026 Plus, the numbers weren’t business by business, but different areas lumped together. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 July 2026 Bulletin boards, dry-erase calendars, oversized picture frames, and mirrors are typically lumped in with art. — Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 14 July 2026 If anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, the tens of millions of viewers tuning into Fox every day for the soccer spectacle can be lumped into a single body, inasmuch as everybody—as in, like, everybody—seems to dislike Lalas … or at least the version of himself that he’s ginned up for TV. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 June 2026

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Engineers have assembled a prototype air-cooling rig to test the passive safety systems.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
High prices, closed factories Anderson said from January to July this year, there were about 689,000 vehicles assembled in Canada.

— Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of assembled

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Finally, the next season, Karlsson was shuffled frequently between Abbotsford and Vancouver and resided at the fringes of the NHL lineup.

— Thomas Drance, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Venegas scrolled through his phone while Penna shuffled past us to grab a drink from the office fridge.

— Christine Terrisse, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

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Following Technoblade’s death, more than 400,000 messages from fans were collected in a virtual Minecraft memorial and transformed into 22 books of condolences for his family.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
Reporters collected waitlist and enrollment data from 47 states and the District of Columbia.

— Moriah Balingit, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of collected

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Community members gathered for the town hall Monday night to hear from former employees, community leaders and the president and CEO of Insight, who spoke about his hopes for the now-shuttered West Suburban and Weiss Memorial hospitals.

— Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
During the surge, the most important of these turned out to be those founded during the upheaval that followed George Floyd’s murder, when residents gathered in nearby parks to organize block associations led by captains.

— Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

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But most of the attempts to scale sodium-ion cells stumbled over short lifespans and poor heat tolerance.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
In her attempt to get away, the woman stumbled and injured her leg, screaming for help the whole time, police said.

— Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026

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Accommodations and gathering spaces are closely grouped to keep people together, including the long, family-style tables for meals and board games, daily activities, and nightly happy hours hosted by the property.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2026
Wedbush's Reese noted that Imax is grouped in with the theatrical exhibition space, which is traditionally a slow-growth, dividend-paying business.

— Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of grouped

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Brown said the handlers ran across the field trying to track her down before she was eventually corralled and safely led back in her trailer.

— Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
But Hamlin successfully corralled an interception on Saturday, an important data point.

— Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026

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