humping

verb

Definition of humpingnext
present participle of hump
1
as in laboring
to devote serious and sustained effort the farmers had to really hump to get the harvest in before the rains

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2
as in trotting
to proceed or move quickly the boat was really humping before the motor started to sputter all of a sudden

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for humping
  1. struggling
  2. striving
  3. working
  4. driving
  5. jumping
  6. zipping
  7. running
  8. buzzing
Verb
  • Government Aid Programs Several government programs offer financial assistance to those who are unemployed and struggling.
    True Tamplin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The struggling online retailer is in the midst of trying to effect a turnaround of its operations.
    Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of struggling
Verb
  • In the movie, a bright, striving teenager navigates the terrors of Jim Crow South and makes a split-decision that recasts the course of his life.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
  • His son describes him as an outspoken advocate for positive portrayals of African Americans in television and film, consistently striving to create more diverse and accurate representations of his community.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of striving
Verb
  • Baby boomers are the most likely generation to be working multiple jobs at once, as inflation and high costs of living are making retirement a more distant dream.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Albeit the shift to default maximum protections has triggered the current Epic Games lawsuit, which claims Samsung and Google are working together to make third-party app installs overly difficult.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of working
Verb
  • The driving rats project has opened new and unexpected doors in my behavioral neuroscience research lab.
    Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Modern cars have almost unilaterally replaced dashboards full of tactile knobs with sleek, iPad-like digital displays, despite concerns these alluring devices might be making distracted driving worse.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of driving
Verb
  • The jumping-for-beef gag is meme magic in itself — and has helped the Parkour Civilization phenomenon blow up on X (formerly Twitter) in recent days.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Nighttime experiences are spookier, with darker lighting and characters in scary masks jumping out to startle visitors.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of jumping
Verb
  • Most novelists freely pump the gas and the brakes, zipping through the boring bits to get to the good ones, but his pacing is remorselessly steady, the metronome locked at 60, one second per second.
    Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Quanta Magazine caught up with him a couple of times this year over Zoom to hear why space-time might be fundamental after all, and what the symmetries of the particles zipping around in it might suggest.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of zipping
Verb
  • Despite a strong stretch drive, their final record of 93-69 left them five games behind the front-running Dodgers in the National League West.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Investing in a franchise is often perceived as less of a financial risk than embarking on an independent enterprise, as well as offering the ability to be up and running and generating income relatively quickly.
    Fiona Simpson, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of running
Verb
  • The ongoing geopolitical issues globally have kept the defense stocks buzzing.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Those who consume it are plunged into vivid hallucinations, often preceded by a loud buzzing noise, that last between 24 and 48 hours.
    Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2024
Definition of buzzing
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