tump (over)

chiefly Southern

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tump (over)
Verb
  • In the capital Naypyitaw, the quake damaged religious shrines, sending parts toppling to the ground and some homes.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Since March 14, severe weather has left a trail of destruction, toppling trees, demolishing homes, and igniting wildfires, the Associated Press reported.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Thousands of demonstrators clad in canary-yellow soccer jerseys thronged Copacabana Beach this month in support of a leader accused of conspiring to overthrow Brazil’s young democracy.
    Constance Malleret, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Some of the other documents also detailed operations to potentially overthrow Castro.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 19 Mar. 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
  • Icarus This arc inverts the Man in a Hole storyline.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2025
  • But this one inverts that timeframe, opening midway through the evening that closed Episode 4 and—like the Full Moon Party on the island of Koh Phangan that is its partial backdrop—raging till the brink of dawn.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The White House all but dared Goldberg to turn over the chat room transcript, gambling that The Atlantic would back down.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Teams rise and fall, tactical trends evolve, and squads turn over every few seasons.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Missouri banned almost all abortions in 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe.
    Summer Ballentine, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Endangerment would require overturning a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
    Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 28 Mar. 2025
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“Tump (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tump%20%28over%29. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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