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—lumpingly, adv./lump/, n.1. a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.2. a protuberance or swelling: a blow that raised a lump on his head.3. an aggregation, collection, or mass; clump: All the articles were piled in a great lump.4. Also called lump of sugar. a small block of granulated sugar, designed for sweetening hot coffee, tea, etc.: How many lumps do you take in your coffee?5. majority; plurality; multitude: The great lump of voters are still undecided.6. lumps, Informal. harsh criticism, punishment, or defeat: The new theory came in for some lumps when other scholars heard of it.7. Informal. a heavy, clumsy, and usually stupid person.8. get or take one's lumps, to receive or endure hardship, punishment, criticism, etc.: Without its star pitcher, the baseball team will get its lumps today.adj.9. in the form of a lump or lumps: lump sugar.10. made up of a number of items taken together; not separated or considered separately: The debts were paid in one lump sum.v.t.11. to unite into one aggregation, collection, or mass (often fol. by together): We lumped the reds and blues together.12. to deal with, handle, consider, etc., in the lump or mass: to lump unrelated matters indiscriminately.13. to make into a lump or lumps: to lump dough before shaping it into loaves.14. to raise into or cover with lumps: a plow lumping the moist earth.v.i.15. to form or raise a lump or lumps: Stir the gravy so that it doesn't lump.16. to move heavily and awkwardly: The big oaf lumped along beside me.lump2/lump/, v.t. Informal.to put up with; resign oneself to; accept and endure: If you don't like it, you can lump it.
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Universalium. 2010.
