To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
Used in a Sentence
jumped
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for jumped.
Editorial note
It seems like a lot of journalists have jumped on the 'bash Microsoft for privacy' bandwagon this week.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of jumped gathered in one view.
To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
(intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for jumped.
verb
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
verb
To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
verb
(intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
verb
(transitive) To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
Example sentences
It seems like a lot of journalists have jumped on the 'bash Microsoft for privacy' bandwagon this week.
Seeing this kind of rumor posted to HN always makes me wonder if it has jumped the shark.
Of course nobody jumped on you like jackals before you had a global platform to offend people.
Third-party twitter clients, which were being shafted around the same time, would have jumped on it.
For example when Amazon finally split their revenue to show how much their cloud offerings were making the stock jumped by 18%.
I never tried lines as I just jumped from static to animated, and reduced the step for performance.
I remember thinking I was going to die right up until my Mom jumped in and saved me.
Maybe it's just because they jumped straight from Windows 8 to Windows 10.
Many ISP's jumped on the opportunity to stop paying for Usenet service.
I firstly thought he was messing with us, but I jumped in the lake for him after about 10 seconds.
My brother jumped into the stream and just yanked the kid.
He had jumped from the top step of his high chair straight in apparently and literally threw me out of the water to a waiting colleague.
Quote examples
Were they to overtly use their position to "punish" the content companies in this way, they would be jumped on by regulators everywhere for abusing a monopoly power.
That's a fair point: I didn't read the original suggestion to mean, "Your ISP acts as an agent to manage your paid site subscriptions" -- which, you're right, has nothing to do with net neutrality -- I just instantly jumped to the blocking/throttling conclusion.
My personal theory is that the open office trend at Google (and probably Facebook, and others) was initially driven by the fact that the founders jumped directly from school, and never had a "real job" with a normal, old-school office when they were first starting.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use jumped in a sentence?
It seems like a lot of journalists have jumped on the 'bash Microsoft for privacy' bandwagon this week.
What does jumped mean?
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
What part of speech is jumped?
jumped is commonly used as verb.