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sump up

sump up is the misspelling of sum up.

Meaning of sum up

Verb

sum up (third-person singular simple present sums up, present participle summing up, simple past and past participle summed up)

  1. (ambitransitive) To produce a total by adding.
    • We summed up the donations and found that we had just enough to pay the bills.
    Synonyms:
    add up
  2. (ambitransitive) To summarize.
    • So, to sum up your argument, what you are saying is that it is impossible.

Questions about sump up

What is sump up the misspelling of?
Sump up is the misspelling of sum up.

Words near sump up in the dictionary

  1. sump pits
  2. sump pump
  3. sump pumps
  4. sump tank
  5. sump tanks
  6. sump up
  7. sumpah
  8. sumped
  9. sumph
  10. sumphish
  11. sumphishness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sump up (page history and authors); sum up (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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