tump (over)

Definition of tump (over)next
chiefly Southern

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  • In Bangladesh, which saw its government toppled by mass protests in 2024, 53% of the population is under 30.
    John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Could Iran end up like Libya, where a NATO air campaign in 2011 helped topple a decades-old dictatorship, but paved the way for the disintegration of the Libyan state into a thicket of rival factions and warring militias?
    Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • His ideas precipitated a tectonic crisis of political legitimacy and unleashed a series of continent-wide wars, sometimes featuring millenarian protocommunist sects like the Anabaptists, who sought to overthrow the social order.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Over the past two decades, officials in Caracas have also repeatedly accused exiles in the city of orchestrating dozens of plots to overthrow the socialist revolution.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
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
  • The new building will invert the existing Broad museum’s architectural design, with a smooth, gray structure attached to the original construction.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Lastly, the bank still sees positive breadth at 7%, which during other market bottoms has been severely inverted.
    Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • That inefficiency brought his pitch count up to 78 pitches twice through the Guardians’ batting order, and Roberts pulled him when the lineup turned over again.
    Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Matthews said the recovered remains were turned over to the coroner’s office for identification.
    Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Forty-five years after Wong Kim Ark’s victory, the justices were pushed – after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor – to overturn that ruling and revoke citizenship for Japanese Americans born in the United States.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
  • This week’s wins could unleash a barrage of new lawsuits, even if the verdicts are overturned in the appellate courts, as the companies, their supporters, and many 1st Amendment experts expect.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2026
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“Tump (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tump%20%28over%29. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.

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