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jump- (verb)
- To propel oneself rapidly upward such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- The boy jumped over a fence.
- To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.
- To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
- To attack suddenly and violently.
- The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
- To force to jump.
- The rider jumped the horse over the fence.
- (noun)
- An instance of propelling oneself into the air.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- A jumping move in a board game.
- An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- (adverb)
- exactly; precisely
