tump (over)

chiefly Southern

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tump (over)
Verb
  • Fort Worth Eastern Hills topples Southwest Something had to give on Tuesday night, Jan. 14, at Billingsley Field House.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Within Anchorage itself, winds hit 75 mph, toppling trees, scattering debris and partially collapsing a pedestrian bridge over the Seward Highway, the city's main southern thoroughfare.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • That is why, my friends, that is why the tech billionaires want to overthrow democracy.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Context: Seditious conspiracy is defined as when two or more people conspire to overthrow, destroy, seize the property of or levy war against the U.S. government, or to prevent the execution of any American law.
    Axios, Axios, 21 Jan. 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
  • Trump executive order inverts civil rights hiring protections President Donald Trump revoked a 1965 civil rights executive order Tuesday, rolling back authorities long used to prevent employment discrimination by federal contractors, subcontractors and grant recipients.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Cool in pan on a wire rack; invert directly onto rack, remove paper and cool completely.
    Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Compounding the anxiety was a directive from the Office of Personnel Management instructing agency heads to turn over by Jan. 24 names of those who were still in their probationary period, typically within one or two years of their hiring.
    Erica L. Green, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The judge prodded prosecutors to turn over fingerprint, cellphone, photo, video and other evidence from the FBI and Spanish National Police to Knezevich’s defense team.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Evidence stored in the kits, sometimes for decades, allowed cold cases to be solved and wrongful convictions to be overturned.
    Sheila McClear, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Fani Willis, a state prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia, similarly charged Mr. Trump in a case related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results there.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Tump (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tump%20%28over%29. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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