Bounce: Definition and part of speech

Bounce

  1. adv. With a sudden leap; suddenly.
  2. v. i. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
  3. v. i. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
  4. v. i. To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
  5. v. t. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
  6. v. t. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
  7. v. t. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
  8. v. t. To bully; to scold.
  9. n. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
  10. n. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
  11. 1adv. 1 With a sudden leap; suddenly.
  12. 1v. i. 1 To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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