to lump
- verb
- /lʌmp/
- You shouldn't lump all the students into one category based on their grades.
- lump together
- lump disparate items together
- lump into a category
They try to lump you in the Instagram comedian talks.
- They try to lump you in the Instagram comedian talks.
- So stop lumping us in with your humanity.
- So all of these together have to do with what's now lumped in what we call diagnostic error.
- It's like, well, if you get lumped into the same level as Stani, you're done.
- On the receiving end of this brutal honesty, enablers will also lump this under things like tough love.
- They wouldn't spread, but we just kind of get lumped into the whole, you know, states law, I guess.
- Philosophy gets counterposed to rhetoric, and often rhetoric gets lumped under sophistry, Right?
Examples
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And essentially he's either trying to lump us all into the same thing.
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Don't lump me in with him.
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But yeah, yeah, I would personally struggle to lump them in with the album, I think.
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Emily, when you lump it All together like this, I know how it sounds.
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Enablers will also lump this under things like tough love.
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They just kind of lump them all together.
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Don't lump me in with everyone else, alright?
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If we so much as raise a peep, they lump us together with the terrorists.
Fiction book (1995) -
I think that there is a tendency to lump black and ethnic minorities together.
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Look, all I'm saying is shouldn't there be options for education, choices for the individual instead of lumping everyone together in a single one-size-fits-all model?
Synonyms
To mix two or more things into one
To join several things into one whole
Mix together so things join and are hard to tell apart
To mix things so they become one
To come together into a small, close group
To move or bring close together to form a small group
To join several groups or parts to make one
To group similar things together into larger units
To gather different things into one group
Antonyms
Idioms
A tight, uncomfortable feeling in the throat when you feel very sad or nervous and want to cry
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A single large payment that you get all at once instead of in smaller parts
How Coarse
Surface Forms
Etymology
To lump things together comes from the same idea of making one 'mass' out of many parts, so it means to group different things without looking at their differences.