clump
/klʌmp/
verb
- To walk with heavy, noisy steps.
- He clumped across the wooden floor in his work shoes.
- We could hear the horse clumping along the dirt road.
- The children clumped up the stairs in their winter boots.
- To form or gather into a small, thick group or mass.
- If you add too much water, the flour will clump.
- The cells began to clump under the microscope.
- The wet snow clumped together on the branches.
- To place or arrange things in a tight group.
- She clumped the chairs together around the table.
- Don't clump all the heavy boxes in one corner.
- The designer clumped the flowers in the center of the vase.
Antonyms
noun
- A small, thick group of things growing or placed close together, such as trees, bushes, or grass.
- The hiker stepped over a clump of mossy rocks.
- We sat in the shade of a clump of oak trees.
- A clump of daffodils grew by the fence.
- A heavy, dull sound like something solid hitting the ground.
- The book fell to the floor with a clump.
- There was a loud clump as the sack of potatoes hit the truck bed.
- I heard the clump of boots on the wooden stairs.
- A mass or lump of something, especially a soft or sticky substance.
- He broke off a clump of dough and rolled it into a ball.
- She found a clump of wet clay on the wheel.
- There was a clump of hair in the drain.