0 past simple and past participle of bump --
2 to travel, usually in a vehicle, in an uncomfortable way because the surface you are moving over is rough: --
3 to remove someone from a particular position, sometimes to a different one: --
He receives £11,000 compensation, plus a bumped-up pension, plus, to my astonishment, a disturbance allowance of £500.
When someone says that they have bumped into a door or fallen down the stairs, other questions could be asked about the bruising.
Perhaps somebody has bumped into him or somebody has overtaken and cut in and damaged his offside wing and slightly damaged his steering.
The allowance was bumped up again in 1982 to £5,000, and increased each year thereafter in line with the retail price index.
We then bumped along at that figure, and have been gradually pulling up.
The 2000 figures are six times greater than those for the beginning of the 1990s, which bumped along at a very low level.
They bumped him out into the cold, but at least he will be able to heat his house.
Pedestrians, particularly if they are elderly or infirm, may be bumped into or knocked over.
