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Bump up   /bəmp əp/   Listen
Bump up

verb
1.
Increase or raise.






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"Bump up" Quotes from Famous Books



... to think a great many sleepy thoughts: Why did the hedges run so fast? and why did the telegraph wires go up and down as if they were always making curtsies? and was that really mother opposite, or was it Cinderella's fairy godmother? And all of a sudden Milly came bump up against a tall blue mountain that had a face like a man, and cried out when she bumped ...
— Milly and Olly • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... Frenchman, "if you ever need anybody to help you out, you can count on me. Maybe some day you will bump up against someone who can best you, but I believe the two of us together ...
— The Boy Allies Under Two Flags • Ensign Robert L. Drake



Words linked to "Bump up" :   raise



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