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jump

noun: a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"

noun: an abrupt transition; "a successful leap from college to the major leagues"

noun: (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another

noun: a sudden involuntary movement; "he awoke with a start"

noun: descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army"

noun: the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected"

verb: move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"

verb: move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room"

verb: make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"

verb: increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped overnight"

verb: be highly noticeable

verb: enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game"

verb: rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"

verb: jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre"

verb: run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"

verb: jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

verb: cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"

verb: start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery

verb: bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"

verb: pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another"

verb: go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions


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jump

Length: 4 letters

Scrabble value: 15

Words with Friends value: 17

Literati value: 9

TWL (USA): Found

SOWPODS (UK): Found


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