as in to assassinate
to put to death deliberately
these drug dealers mean business, and they'll bump off anyone who gets in their way
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Recent Examples of bump off
Andrew Peeke got bumped off the puck behind the net by Alex Tuch on Thompson’s second goal.
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Stephen Conroy, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026
Ioane charged and offloaded to Tommaso Menoncello, who bumped off Elliot Daly and passed inside to midfield partner Marin to finish off.
—ABC News, 7 Mar. 2026
Midway through, Clinton is bumped off at a monastery while dressed as a monk in Raquel Welch drag, and his guests must unravel the crime.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
Smith, a tall 25-year-old gay Black man determined to have a fun night on the town, picks up a bag of coke and immediately does a bump off his key.
—Ana Osorno, Them., 21 Nov. 2025
Then, just like that, the Zero got bumped off the top of the ultralight electric pump pyramid earlier this summer by the APO5C from fellow Chinese brand Nitecore, a pump that weighs roughly 10 grams less than the Zero while offering comparable performance.
—New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2025
Leganes’ Oscar Rodriguez learned this the hard way in May, getting bumped off the ball with the sort of front-footed tackle Agoume enjoys.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 30 June 2025
YouTube continues to rake in money from advertisers worldwide, with the video giant’s ad revenue reaching $8.93 billion in the first quarter of 2025, up 10.3% year over year — a solid double-digit bump off an already large haul.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025
She was thrust into J.J. Yeley’s car as she was bumped off the starting grid because of ownership points.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Stephen Conroy, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026
Ioane charged and offloaded to Tommaso Menoncello, who bumped off Elliot Daly and passed inside to midfield partner Marin to finish off.
—ABC News, 7 Mar. 2026
Midway through, Clinton is bumped off at a monastery while dressed as a monk in Raquel Welch drag, and his guests must unravel the crime.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
Smith, a tall 25-year-old gay Black man determined to have a fun night on the town, picks up a bag of coke and immediately does a bump off his key.
—Ana Osorno, Them., 21 Nov. 2025
Then, just like that, the Zero got bumped off the top of the ultralight electric pump pyramid earlier this summer by the APO5C from fellow Chinese brand Nitecore, a pump that weighs roughly 10 grams less than the Zero while offering comparable performance.
—New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2025
Leganes’ Oscar Rodriguez learned this the hard way in May, getting bumped off the ball with the sort of front-footed tackle Agoume enjoys.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 30 June 2025
YouTube continues to rake in money from advertisers worldwide, with the video giant’s ad revenue reaching $8.93 billion in the first quarter of 2025, up 10.3% year over year — a solid double-digit bump off an already large haul.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025
She was thrust into J.J. Yeley’s car as she was bumped off the starting grid because of ownership points.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bump off
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Famously, a former RSS member assassinated one of the most famous Indians in history, Mohandas Gandhi, in 1948.—
Rob Schmitz,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2026
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the archconservative patriarch of modern Japanese politics who was assassinated in 2022, was the last sitting premier to pay respects at the shrine in-person.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Apr. 2026
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Born in Austria in 1933, the year Hitler took power in Germany, Stojka was a survivor of the Romani Holocaust, in which the Third Reich murdered as many as half a million people.—
Ben Davis,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Yet when Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering eight women earlier this month, Gilbert was not among the victims.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2026
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The rest of the killings were all planned, the victims slain inside the family’s home, most in the basement, when the rest of the family was not home, Heuermann said.—
David K. Li,
NBC news,
23 Apr. 2026
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But all that would change after the July 7, 2021, slaying of Haiti’s president, when both agents would eventually cut off contact with Pretel and the FBI terminated its contractual engagement with him.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
23 Apr. 2026
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Arsenal’s short-corner routine against Newcastle was well planned and executed in creating the winner, but the other parts of it were important too.—
Ahmed Walid,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Another federal law enforcement official briefed on the probe told USA TODAY that the FBI executed a search warrant at a home linked to Allen in Torrance, a Los Angeles suburb.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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Bonetig, a 23-year-old defender who made his seventh career appearance, put away a loose ball from the center of the area to cap the scoring.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Apr. 2026
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The Carolina Hurricanes were looking to put away the Ottawa Senators on Saturday afternoon, and boy, were the Sens not willing to go down without a fight.—
Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2026
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Despite such reports, historians generally view this as exaggerated or taken out of context from a close but platonic friendship.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2026
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Some take out their phones to shoot video of the unfolding scene.—
Charles Forelle,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2026
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