JUMPED | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of jumped in English jumped Add to word list Add to word list past simple and past participle of jump jumpverb uk /dʒʌmp/ us /dʒʌmp/

jump verb (IN THE AIR)

A2 [ I ] to push yourself suddenly off the ground and into the air using your legs: The children were jumping up and down with excitement. She ran across the grass and jumped into the water. He had to jump out of an upstairs window to escape. Our cat is always jumping up on/onto the furniture. to jump

• jumpThe kids jumped up and down when they heard we were going to Disneyland.
• leapThe deer leaped out of the forest.
• boundHe bounded on stage, punching the air with both fists.
• launch yourselfShe rocked back and forth on her skis before launching herself down the slope.
• bounceThe kids were bouncing happily on the trampoline.
• hopI stubbed my toe and hopped to the kitchen to get some ice.

See more results » A2 [ I or T ] to push yourself suddenly off the ground in order to go over something: Can you jump over/across this stream? All the horses are finding it difficult to jump the last fence.

• The children have jumped on the couch so much that they've ruined the springs.
• In desperation, they jumped out of the window to escape the fire.
• This will be her third try at jumping the bar.
• My little daughter started jumping up and down with rage when she heard she couldn't go.
• The rider was thrown as the horse jumped the fence.

Jumping

• a hop, skip, and a jump idiom
• bound
• bunny hop
• cannonball
• caper
• clear
• clear a hurdle
• frisk
• hop
• hurdle
• jump
• leap
• leaper
• outjump
• outleap
• pile
• pile on/onto (someone) phrasal verb
• skip
• vault

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jump verb (MOVE/ACT SUDDENLY)

B1 [ I usually + adv/prep ] to move or act suddenly or quickly: He suddenly jumped to his feet/jumped up and left. She jumped in/into a taxi and rushed to the station. to move fast

• speedHe ran back to his car and sped off.
• raceShe raced over and hugged me.
• flyShe flew across the room just in time to stop the baby falling off the chair.
• beltUK Traffic was belting along the motorway.
• tearA fire truck came tearing down the road.
• streakBullets streaked across the sky.

See more results » B2 [ I ] If a noise or action causes you to jump, your body makes a sudden sharp movement because of surprise or fear: The loud explosion made everyone jump. I almost jumped out of my skin when I heard a loud crash downstairs.

• I jumped out of bed and ran downstairs.
• He released the handbrake and the car jumped forwards.
• I tore my sweaty clothes off and jumped into the shower.
• Whenever anyone criticizes her husband, she immediately jumps to his defence.
• I enjoyed the movie but I found it quite bitty, jumping from one family's story to another.

Hurrying and doing things quickly

• accelerate
• acceleration
• against the clock idiom
• against time/the clock idiom
• alacrity
• bash
• dispatch
• expedition
• grab-and-go
• grease
• hacky
• haste
• hasten
• over-hasty
• panic button
• patch something together phrasal verb
• pounce
• precipitately
• prompt
• promptitude

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Making short, sudden movements Surprising and shocking

jump verb (INCREASE)

[ I ] to increase suddenly by a large amount: House prices have jumped dramatically. The cost of building the road has jumped by 70 percent.

• The price of petrol suddenly jumped 5p per litre.
• Tell the children to be careful because the depth of the water jumps quite unexpectedly.
• This year my son's height has jumped dramatically - he's taller than his sister now.
• The price of the shares jumped after the takeover announcement.
• I wouldn't expect the interest rate to jump again for some time.

Increasing and intensifying

• accretion
• accumulate
• accumulative
• accumulatively
• add fuel to something
• blaze
• crank
• explosive
• gain in something
• go into orbit idiom
• go up phrasal verb
• growing
• growingly
• mushroom
• raise consciousness
• ramp
• ramp something up phrasal verb
• ratchet something up/down phrasal verb
• re-escalate
• stake

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jump verb (SEQUENCE)

[ I usually + adv/prep ] If a story, film, play, etc. jumps, it moves suddenly between different parts of it: The movie is about his adult life, but it keeps jumping (back) to when he was a child. His talk was hard to follow because he kept jumping from one subject to another. Changing

• about turn! idiom
• about-face
• alterable
• altered
• alternate
• churn
• make an about-face
• make an about-turn
• make something into something phrasal verb
• malleable
• meta
• morph
• mutate
• pervert
• reversibly
• revolutionize
• rollback
• rotation
• rotational
• transcribe

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jump verb (AVOID)

[ T ] to avoid or leave out a point or stage from the correct order in a series: You have to follow the instructions exactly, you can't just jump a few steps ahead. Avoiding action

• abrogate
• abrogation
• avoid
• avoid something like the plague idiom
• avoidance
• doss
• elude
• end-run
• eschew
• evade
• evader
• evasion
• fiddle
• insure
• run for the hills idiom
• shirk
• short circuit
• shrink from something phrasal verb
• shy away from something phrasal verb
• steer

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jump verb (ATTACK)

[ T ] informal to attack someone suddenly: They were just walking home when a bunch of guys jumped (on) them.

jump verb (MOVE PAST/AWAY)

[ T ] to go past or away from something illegally or wrongly: The police video showed that she had jumped the (traffic) lights. Several sailors jumped ship (= left their ship without permission) in New York.  jump bail to fail to appear for a court trial after being released until the trial in exchange for payment: I'd never have thought Hugh would jump bail. See more Moving in order to avoid contact

• avoid
• avoid something like the plague idiom
• avoidance
• bypass
• circumnavigate
• dodge
• duck and dodge (something) idiom
• duck and weave idiom
• evasive action
• evasively
• evasiveness
• fall
• jump
• parry
• shrug
• shrug away phrasal verb
• skirt
• steer
• steer clear of someone/something idiom
• weave

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jump verb (BUSY)

 be jumping old-fashioned informal If a place is jumping, it is crowded and full of life: This joint (= place of entertainment) is really jumping tonight. See more

Idioms

be jumping up and down go (and) jump in the lake jump all over someone jump down someone's throat jump for joy jump in with both feet jump the gun jump the queue jump through hoops jump to conclusions jump to it jump the shark

Phrasal verbs

jump at something jump in jump on someone jump out at someone (Definition of jumped from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of jumped

jumped

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Each move consists of a jump by one man over one or more other men, the men jumped over being removed from the board. From the Cambridge English Corpus He immediately jumped on the cub and seemed to bite it in the neck. From the Cambridge English Corpus In one condition, participants were instructed to correct their movements on-line when the target jumped. From the Cambridge English Corpus The stories just jumped out at me again like they had twelve years before. From the Cambridge English Corpus As the factory head walked by, he jumped up to meet him. From the Cambridge English Corpus Actually, there is almost no way of telling that the recopying process has jumped from one reference piece to the other. From the Cambridge English Corpus The cost of providing employees with healthcare jumped in 1988 to 8.9% of wages and salaries, up from 2.2% in 1965. From the Cambridge English Corpus That number jumped to 59% when the children reached 14 years of age. From the Cambridge English Corpus Much of organized labor jumped on the "competitiveness" bandwagon. From the Cambridge English Corpus Furthermore, some patients are likely to have "jumped" a hypothetical state. From the Cambridge English Corpus The fences were highly effective at excluding rabbits but larger vertebrates, for example roe and muntjac deer, occasionally jumped over them. From the Cambridge English Corpus Altogether, there were 29 occasions when prices jumped by twenty per cent or more, that is, once every six years (figure 1). From the Cambridge English Corpus British import of foreign tin jumped from 4,000 tons to 86,600 tons from the 1840s to the 1870s. From the Cambridge English Corpus While none, for example, were reported in 1993 and 1994, the rate jumped to 10 in 1995 and 12 in 1996. From the Cambridge English Corpus Unlike the wind characteristics, solar radiation never jumped from one point to another, it moved smoothly up and down in a step-like manner. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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More meanings of jumped

• jump
• jump up
• jumped-up
• jump rope
• bungee-jump
• jump to your feet
• jump up and down

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• jump at something phrasal verb
• jump at sth phrasal verb
• jump in phrasal verb
• jump on phrasal verb
• jump into sth phrasal verb
• jump on someone phrasal verb
• jump out at someone phrasal verb

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  • Verb 
    • jump (IN THE AIR)
    • jump (MOVE/ACT SUDDENLY)
    • jump (INCREASE)
    • jump (SEQUENCE)
    • jump (AVOID)
    • jump (ATTACK)
    • jump (MOVE PAST/AWAY)
    • jump bail
    • jump (BUSY)
    • be jumping
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