bumped off

past tense of bump off

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of bumped off There’s a moment in the movie when the Ben Affleck character has bumped off her lover. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026 Handre Pollard's grubber was scooped up by center Jesse Kriel, who bumped off two Scots to score. ABC News, 11 July 2026 Andrew Peeke got bumped off the puck behind the net by Alex Tuch on Thompson’s second goal. Stephen Conroy, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026 Midway through, Clinton is bumped off at a monastery while dressed as a monk in Raquel Welch drag, and his guests must unravel the crime. Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bumped off
Verb
  • Congress named the performing arts center as a living memorial to Kennedy in 1964, the year after he was assassinated.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The congregation was the organizing place for the sanitation workers’ strike that brought King to town in March 1968, weeks before he was assassinated there.
    Jason Wollschleger, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • If the appeals court agrees, Patterson would only be the second woman to receive a full life sentence in Australia, after Katherine Knight, who murdered her de facto husband and cooked parts of his body.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
  • On August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother, Andrew and Abby Borden, were murdered in the family’s home in Fall River, Massachusetts.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The 68-year-old was executed by lethal injection July 28 for the rape and murder of 11-year-old Teresa McAbee while on duty as a cop for the Mascotte Police Department.
    Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Two Elmwood jail inmates were convicted at trial of murdering another inmate in a vicious gang beating that was executed over the course of 11 agonizing minutes, and went undetected even as it was recorded on surveillance cameras.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Defender Kevin O'Toole poked the ball away, but Mboma Dem put away a sliding first-touch shot that opened the scoring in the 11th minute.
    CBS News, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Defender Kevin O’Toole poked the ball away, but Mboma Dem put away a sliding first-touch shot that opened the scoring in the 11th minute.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Some have been Ukrainian drones knocked off course by Russian electronic warfare, such as the jamming of navigation signals, which can make their flight paths unpredictable and complicate decisions about whether and where to shoot them down.
    Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Thunderstorms that sweep through the Kansas City area producing brilliant flashes of lightning and booming thunder knocked off power to around 10,000 customers in the Kansas City area.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2026

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“Bumped off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bumped%20off. Accessed 21 Aug. 2026.

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