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bumming out

bumming out is the present participle and gerund of bum out.

Meaning of bum out

Verb

bum out (third-person singular simple present bums out, present participle bumming out, simple past and past participle bummed out)

  1. (slang, transitive) To cause a person to be depressed or disappointed.
    • “It bums me out that I can’t play, but I’m glad my brother has the opportunity,” Austin Baker said.2008 March 5, Rick Weegman, “Cloquet-Esko-Carlton: childhood dreams come true”, in Duluth News Tribune

Questions about bumming out

What is bumming out the present participle and gerund of?
Bumming out is the present participle and gerund of bum out.

Words near bumming out in the dictionary

  1. bummier
  2. bummies
  3. bummiest
  4. bumming
  5. bumming around
  6. bumming out
  7. bummle
  8. bummled
  9. bummles
  10. bummling
  11. bummock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bumming out (page history and authors); bum out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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