Pump and Return

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Pump

Pump verb - To make short up-and-down movements.
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Return is an antonym for pump.
Nearby Words: pumped, pumping

Return

Return verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.
Usage example: when I asked him to sit down to dinner, he returned that he would come when he was good and ready
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Pump is an antonym for return.
Nearby Words: returned, returning, returnable, returnee, returner
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Common collocations

ability pump ability return ability
power pump power return power
life pump life return life
body pump body return body
Other words: someone, amount, money, dead, damage, powers.

Both words in one sentence

  • Cursed with Awesome Eventually, however, Stanley gets tired of being flat, and his brother - who was formerly jealous of him - is able to return him to his normal shape with a bicycle pump.
    Source: Cursed with Awesome
  • Recap / Merlin S 01 E 11 The Labyrinth Of Gedref Water is dripping from the spout, and as she works the pump, water gushes out.In his room, Merlin and Arthur enjoy the return of the water, and Merlin suggests that Arthur’s act of mercy in letting the villager go was the first test that Anhora spoke of.
    Source: Recap / Merlin S 01 E 11 The Labyrinth Of Gedref
  • The last boss of Return to Castle Wolfenstein has no ranged attack, is very slow and is fought in a huge area where you can just run circles and pump him full of minigun bullets.
    Source: Breather Boss
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