clumped

verb

past tense of clump
as in shuffled
to move heavily or clumsily a child clumping around the house in her father's oversized boots

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Recent Examples of clumped The heroine’s eyes are filled with yearning, her eyelashes glistening and ever-so-perfectly clumped? — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 5 July 2026 The same is true if the entire jar seems overly hardened or clumped into a solid mass. — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 May 2026 Like Faberge eggs seeking their level, the country’s heirlooms have clumped up in certain locations. — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 May 2026 Continue stirring and splashing in water, aiming for where the flour has not yet clumped and shaking the bowl (or scraping down the sides) as needed to incorporate all the flour, until the mixture forms small, irregularly sized clumps, about rice- or pea-sized. — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026 When wet, faux fur can quickly become matted or clumped, which can damage its texture. — Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2026 Her ’60s clumped lashes and coiffed hair, for example, are still highly referenced today. — Essence, 26 Mar. 2026 Dimorphos, also a rubble pile, likely formed from debris that clumped together after being shed by Didymos. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026 These areas mimic a natural desert oasis environment, where trees are clumped together and left to grow naturally, producing fruit and nourishing the local wildlife. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clumped
  1. shuffled
  2. stomped
  3. stumbled
Verb
  • The Playoff remains parked at 12 teams, and some G6 conferences shuffled teams, now including North Dakota State and Sacramento State.
    — Jason Kirk, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • Black voters were shuffled around Houston, with much of the previous 9th Congressional District becoming the new 18th District.
    — Rahul Mukherjee, NPR, 23 July 2026
Definition of shuffled
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  • That was broken up by Owens, who stomped Gunther and then caught him with a big clothesline.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Ten members of a Pennsylvania high school football team, including several coaches, face charges after a player was allegedly stomped with cleats, and jabbed in the buttocks with a broomstick.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
Definition of stomped
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  • Athletic Club stumbled through most of last season, in part due to star forward Nico Williams never reaching 100 per cent fitness.
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Andropov died in 1984, and Gorbachev took more than a year to gain power while the Kremlin stumbled along under the caretaker regime of the grievously ill Konstantin Chernenko.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of stumbled

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