"jumped" in the verb sense

1. jump, leap, bound, spring

move forward by leaps and bounds

"The horse bounded across the meadow"

"The child leapt across the puddle"

"Can you jump over the fence?"

2. startle, jump, start

move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm

"She startled when I walked into the room"

3. jump

make a sudden physical attack on

"The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"

4. jump

increase suddenly and significantly

"Prices jumped overnight"

5. leap out, jump out, jump, stand out, stick out

be highly noticeable

6. jump

enter eagerly into

"He jumped into the game"

7. rise, jump, climb up

rise in rank or status

"Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"

8. jump, leap, jump off

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"

9. derail, jump

run off or leave the rails

"the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"

10. chute, parachute, jump

jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

11. jump, leap

cause to jump or leap

"the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"

12. jumpstart, jump-start, jump

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

13. jump, pass over, skip, skip over

bypass

"He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"

14. leap, jump

pass abruptly from one state or topic to another

"leap into fame"

"jump to a conclusion"

"jump from one thing to another"

15. alternate, jump

go back and forth swing back and forth between two states or conditions

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