How to pronounce “lump”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
• A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
• A group, set, or unit.
• A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
• A dull or lazy person.
• A fat person.
• (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
• A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
• A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
• (obsolete, slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
• (obsolete, slang) The workhouse.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
• (transitive) To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
• (transitive) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
• (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
• (intransitive) To form a lump or lumps.

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