to bounce
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1.3
- verb
- /baʊns/
:
rebotar
- You can use the trampoline and bounce up to get into your bedroom.
- bounce back
- bounce the ball
- bounce up and down
And what happens is when you do that, you bounce off the wall.
- And what happens is when you do that, you bounce off the wall.
- He then took the basketball and bounced it right off my board.
- And we're just going to bounce this on the skin.
- It doesn't happen very often. They usually bounce back and forth a few times,
- So we're just going to bounce my bounce foundation in.
- It doesn't bounce into the like, look at this.
- But I think a lot of people are, they're bouncing, they're they're trying things.
Examples
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As the basketball hit the floor, it began to bounce high into the air.
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Yeah, he could see the ball was going to bounce and started running.
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And what happens is when you do that, you bounce off the wall.
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Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump and bounce, bounce, bounce.
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We keep bouncing back in some form or another.
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And the thing about photons is that they bounce off mirrors.
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When a sound wave encounters an object, the wave bounces off the object and back to the SONAR device.
Academic text (2013) -
Parents were encouraged to lightly bounce their infants to the beat while the others clapped.
Academic text (2015) -
The ship slowed, stopped dead, and then drifted down, bouncing once in slow motion.
Fiction book (1990) -
Children hugged the white walls, bouncing as they curiously watched the two people approach.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
199
1.0
To jump quickly from one place to another or make something jump
141
1.0
To move suddenly by jumping, leaping, or bouncing
33
3.4
To hit a surface and move away from it
25
7.7
To bounce off a surface at an angle after hitting it
20
2.7
To make a flat stone bounce across the surface of water
19
2.9
To spring back after hitting something
1
4.4
To hit a surface and bounce away
1
3.7
To move up and down quickly and lightly many times
1
9.6
To move up and down in a quick, jerky way
1
8.9
To move quickly by bouncing often making a spring sound
1
9.5
To bounce off something and move away at an angle
To move or grow upward quickly
To return to its original shape after being bent, pressed, or stretched
Antonyms
Idioms
1
7.4
Just after something hits the ground and comes back up, or immediately without delay
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
How Springy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bounce is like the older word bound, which means 'to leap' or 'jump'. Think of a ball hitting the ground and springing back—so to bounce is to move away quickly after you hit a surface.