tump (over)

Definition of tump (over)next
chiefly Southern
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Verb
  • Lightning — bright red and designed by Chinese smartphone brand Honor — slammed into a barricade and toppled down the stretch, but the robot helped itself back up with human assistance and propelled its three-foot-long legs to victory.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Trump’s first target was Venezuelan autocrat Maduro, a close ally of Cuba, and many Cuban Americans saw that intervention as a step toward realizing Rubio’s desire to topple the island’s communist government.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Created from synthetic organic material, and thus more android than mechanical, these worker-roboti ultimately overthrow their human masters.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The airspace between Haiti and the Dominican Republic was officially closed in March 2024 after armed gangs united and sought to overthrow the government of the prime minister at the time, Ariel Henry.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 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
  • Within the zār belief, those same histories are inverted.
    Adam Pourahmadi, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Naqvi took these ideas and inverted them.
    Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • But the trash had been turned over, and the specialists said that nothing could be done.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The story begins more than a half century ago, in July 1974, when the Supreme Court unanimously ordered President Richard Nixon to turn over White House recordings to a special prosecutor.
    Carrie Johnson, NPR, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Detectives said a passerby found the 60-year-old man partially sitting in a wheelchair that was overturned.
    Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Prior to his 2011 conviction, Jeffs was charged and convicted of being an accomplice to rape in September 2007 after coercing a 14-year-old to marry her 19-year-old cousin, though the ruling was later overturned by the Utah Supreme Court over faulty jury instructions, according to CBS News.
    Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
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“Tump (over).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tump%20%28over%29. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.

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