as in shuffled
to move heavily or clumsily
a child clumping around the house in her father's oversized boots
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Recent Examples of clumped
Time for some more electrolytes, but it’s clumped in the tube!
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R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
The NewCows the drones brought us were odd animals, and even odder once clumped together in a herd.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Conceptualized and brought to life by makeup artist Kenya Rucker and hair stylist Kira Dior, the glam highlights see Palmer don tight, ginger coils, electric blue eye shadow and intentionally clumped lashes for her ’70s moment.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
The NewCows the drones brought us were odd animals, and even odder once clumped together in a herd.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Conceptualized and brought to life by makeup artist Kenya Rucker and hair stylist Kira Dior, the glam highlights see Palmer don tight, ginger coils, electric blue eye shadow and intentionally clumped lashes for her ’70s moment.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clumped
Verb
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Amid the hangover of the 0-4 start, students shuffled out their dorms, lured by free food and faint promise of school spirit at the Rose Bowl.—
Cameron Teague Robinson,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Restyle Soft Goods Soft goods like accent pillows, throw blankets, and even curtains can be easily shuffled around to refresh your space, Reinhard says.—
Cori Sears,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Oct. 2025
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By Dom Luszczyszyn, Sean Gentille and Shayna Goldman Coming into last season, the Washington Capitals had taken major steps to improve a roster that, by plenty of measures, had fluked its way into the postseason and summarily gotten stomped in the first round.—
The Athletic NHL,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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When the band quickly left before the encore, the elated, yet sweaty, audience clapped their hands and stomped their feet without virtually anyone leaving the building.—
Josh Chesler,
AZCentral.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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Except, of course, for that old dinosaur that somehow stumbled into a misplaced DeLorean, fired up the flux capacitor, and time travelled from the stone ages straight to the Uli beach.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
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Determined to keep searching, Hollie eventually stumbled on a TLC episode featuring a boy named Gio, who also had Schwartz-Jampel Syndrome.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Clumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clumped. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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