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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)

lump

/lʌmp/

noun1 of 2

a small hard part of something smooth, soft, or continuous

  • “Please put a lump of sugar in my coffee.”Tatoeba
  • “She has a large lump on her back.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

verb2 of 2

To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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