clump
/klʌmp/ verb C2- To form clusters or lumps.
- To gather in dense groups.
- To walk with heavy footfalls.
He/she/it clumps · Past clumped · Past participle clumped · -ing form clumping
Verb forms
- Base form
- clump
- He/she/it
- clumps
- Past
- clumped
- Past participle
- clumped
- -ing form
- clumping
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Outside in the garden, which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it, stood Anne and Diana, gazing bashfully at each other over a clump of gorgeous tiger lilies.
He could number the fields in every direction, and could tell how many trees there were in the most distant clump.
At this the Queen of the Mice stuck her head out from underneath a clump of grass and asked, in a timid voice, “Are you sure he will not bite us?”
I crouched down among the bushes on the other side, and crawled from one to the other—witness the disreputable state of my trouser knees—until I had reached the clump of rhododendrons just opposite to your bedroom window.
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