tump (over)

chiefly Southern

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tump (over)
Verb
  • Israel’s leaders had vowed to topple Hamas and bring home the roughly 250 hostages the militant group and its allies abducted in October 2023.
    Rawan Sheikh Ahmad, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Make no mistake about it, everyone knows for Ontario Christian to become the new powerhouse in Southern California, Etiwanda must be toppled.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Indeed, in Jordan, Palestinians assassinated a king and attempted to overthrow the government.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The group said Estrella was falsely accused of having been involved in an effort to overthrow Maduro.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • That led to the Saints to overset the edge or overrun the ball carrier, creating huge cutback lanes.
    Lance Reisland, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2022
  • McGovern will often overset shaded defensive linemen, which opens up the inside move for defenders.
    John Owning, Dallas News, 1 June 2020
Verb
  • Measurements and shape tendencies Hourglass shapes are mostly easy to identify, but there are times when they can be confused with other body types, and your body may mix features of the hourglass and a shape such as a pear, apple, inverted triangle or rectangle.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The fuselage is inverted and submerged in waist-deep water, with recovery efforts underway.
    John Feng, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • About 30% of the staff at Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services that oversees benefits enrollment and employment verification had turned over between 2017 and 2022, according to state data.
    Margaret Coker, ProPublica, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The children, meanwhile, have been turned over to a relative via Child Protective Services.
    Gina Kaufman, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • As of now, there is no case before the Supreme Court directly seeking to overturn Obergefell.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
  • While a regional court in Cologne initially recognized four of Birkenstock’s shoe models as works of applied art and granted the company’s orders in 2017, a higher regional court in the city later overturned the orders on appeal in 2022.
    Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Tump (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tump%20%28over%29. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.

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