S: (n) bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings) "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"
S: (v) bump, knock (knock against with force or violence) "My car bumped into the tree"
S: (v) find, happen, chance, bump, encounter (come upon, as if by accident; meet with) "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
S: (v) bump (dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward) "bump and grind"
S: (v) demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs (assign to a lower position; reduce in rank) "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant"
S: (v) mandate (assign under a mandate) "mandate a colony"
S: (v) promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate (give a promotion to or assign to a higher position) "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
S: (v) demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs (assign to a lower position; reduce in rank) "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant"
S: (v) dislodge, bump (remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied) "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"