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jumped |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Jump \Jump\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jumped}; p. pr & vb n. {Jumping}.] [Akin to OD gumpen, dial. G. gumpen, jumpen.] 1. To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap. Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square. -- Shak. 2. To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt. ``The jumping chariots.'' --Nahum iii. 2. A flock of geese jump down together. -- Dryden. 3. To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with ``It jumps with my humor.'' --Shak. {To jump at}, to spring to hence fig., to accept suddenly or eagerly; as a fish jumps at a bait; to jump at a chance.
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