PUMPS Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

pumps

verb

present tense third-person singular of pump

as in bobs

to make short up-and-down movements the thighs of the bicyclists were pumping furiously as they neared the finish line

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as in interrogates

to put a series of questions to prying neighbors pumped the guileless child for information about the family's new pool

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as in drains

to remove (liquid) gradually or completely pumped water from the well

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Recent Examples of pumps Petrobras pumps mostly medium-sweet crude from this pre-salt layer. — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026 The actress elevated the dress with a pair of Isabelle pumps from the late British designer’s label. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026 Usha Vance, meanwhile, chose a cobalt-blue, high-neck silk dress by Saloni with Manolo Blahnik pumps. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026 Kardashian added on a cropped jacket, completing her look with shield sunglasses and snakeskin Christian Louboutin pumps. — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 16 Sep. 2026 Heart chamber walls change their shape, altering how the heart pumps blood. — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 15 Sep. 2026 The first uses a special rig that pumps sCO₂ through real downhole equipment under realistic conditions. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026 The Pod sits atop your mattress and connects to a hub that pumps heated or cooled water through internal tubing, with each side of the bed running its own heat zone. — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026 Scoop it up for half-off, then pick up these Jeffrey Campbell pumps and a pretty clutch to complete the look. — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026

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Onstage at this diverse block party of young and old in Malcolm X shirts and backward Jamaican flag hats, Elsesser bobs his head as if lost in thought.

— Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Short, shiny, and loaded with texture, Wavy bobs ooze effortless glamour.

— Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of bobs

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In present day, back on the planet decimated by the Manhunters, John interrogates Sinestro (Ulrich Thomsen) and learns that Noah freed the villain from prison.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
One day scholars will teach Lepore’s work alongside Arendt’s, seeing that Lepore interrogates not simply a modern moment, but traces our current machine age back to the 17th-century conceit for artifice as improvement.

— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026

Definition of interrogates

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Until, suddenly, the life drains from his eyes, sometimes for barely a second, and returning before anyone else in the scene notices.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
The all-in-one dock cleans the spinning dual mops with hot water, dries them with warm air to prevent musty smells, and automatically drains and refills the water tank.

— Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of drains

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Near the epicenter, the agency estimated an intensity of VIII, classified as severe on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, which measures how strongly the ground shakes at individual locations.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
Core Power protein shakes, sold under the Fairlife brand, will be available in banana and strawberry beginning in January, the first new flavors in almost a decade.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of shakes

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For more on this, check out STAT’s Katie Palmer’s excellent addition to her timely series Paying for AI, which examines how new clinical AI tools influence the affordability of health care and patients’ long-term health.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
Given how closely the film examines Musk’s ties to the far right, why not explore that incident further?

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of examines

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Constantly landing on jokes — like in its portrayal of Lockjaw and his efforts to become a member of the Christmas Adventurers Club, a powerful white-supremacists faction — siphons a sense of urgency from the film’s sketches of American unrest and white male violence.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
The filing comes days after Spotify was accused in another class action lawsuit of permitting massive amounts of streaming fraud on its platform, which siphons royalties from artists whose numbers aren’t artificially inflated.

— Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025

Definition of siphons

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In a viral video of the aftermath, the robot jerks back and forth to shake the glass off, showering yet more dangerous shards onto the sidewalk.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 26 Mar. 2026
Ross’s video does not show if the SUV made contact with him, as the camera angle jerks up to the sky.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026

Definition of jerks

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But when adolescent Elia Gheorghiu shows up at school with bruises, the community questions the traditional education the Gheorghiu yougsters are getting from their parents.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2026
Whereas Riis uses documentation to expose, Rosler questions conventional representation.

— J. Hoberman, ARTnews.com, 9 Oct. 2026

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