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pumps

noun as in high heels

Weak match

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Freed from her guitar, but wearing counterintuitive pumps, she leaned back like a trapeze artist.

As the heart pumps blood to the far reaches of the body, it requires its own blood flow to receive vital oxygen and nutrients.

Some infusion pumps and patient monitoring systems go for less than $100.

Then they install sump pumps to remove remnant toxic waters.

Sandbags surrounded gas pumps at the edge of town, in case of shelling.

The unsupported pump-rods fell downwards, setting in upward motion the column of water in the plunger-pole pumps.

"I was out at the gas pumps when a gray sedan barreled into the station and in onto the wash rack," the young man explained.

So to keep them from mischief they were set to work, some at the pumps, others at putting out the fire.

Both ships were now in flames, and water rushed into the Richard faster than the pumps could keep it out.

To-morrow we can open both entrances to the colliery, and after the air-pumps have been settled the work can be resumed.

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On this page you'll find 2 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pumps, such as: stilettos.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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