pumping

Speech parts

1. pumping - Noun

2. pumping - Verb

Meaning

of Pump

a. & n. from pump.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

force flow gush question drive hunting draw stream expand pump push examination probe injection questioning
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Antonyms

lower deflate reduce contract agree answer
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Phrases with the word

pumping plant iron-pumping pumping facility pumping house water pumping facility pumping up

Examples

Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain. Gene Tunney

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables. Chuck Palahniuk

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. Henri-Frédéric Amiel

You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart.” Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance. Eoin Colfer

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck. Daniel Goleman

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial. David Attenborough

Close letter words and terms

pumphead pumphouse Pumphrey pumping action pumping apparatus pumping equipment