tump (over)

chiefly Southern

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tump (over)
Verb
  • Shiffrin hit the snow, smashed into the gate, toppled over her skis and slid into the protective fence.
    Pat Graham, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2025
  • One of the group’s options to topple the dollar was to create a unified BRICS currency — a proposal spearheaded by Brazil, which has yet to gain traction.
    Abby Ryanto, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • That is why, my friends, that is why the tech billionaires want to overthrow democracy.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Context: Seditious conspiracy is defined as when two or more people conspire to overthrow, destroy, seize the property of or levy war against the U.S. government, or to prevent the execution of any American law.
    Axios, Axios, 21 Jan. 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
  • Trump executive order inverts civil rights hiring protections President Donald Trump revoked a 1965 civil rights executive order Tuesday, rolling back authorities long used to prevent employment discrimination by federal contractors, subcontractors and grant recipients.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Cool in pan on a wire rack; invert directly onto rack, remove paper and cool completely.
    Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Compounding the anxiety was a directive from the Office of Personnel Management instructing agency heads to turn over by Jan. 24 names of those who were still in their probationary period, typically within one or two years of their hiring.
    Erica L. Green, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The judge prodded prosecutors to turn over fingerprint, cellphone, photo, video and other evidence from the FBI and Spanish National Police to Knezevich’s defense team.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The pre-pandemic plan for a third runway was blocked by a court on environmental grounds in 2020, before the Supreme Court overturned that decision.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
  • But Levenson isn’t convinced that this new evidence would be enough to overturn the Menendezes’s 1996 convictions.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
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“Tump (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tump%20%28over%29. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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