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A dump is a place where trash is stored in piles and often buried underground. If you have an old bike that can't be repaired, you might take it to the dump.

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A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

Noun
(computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs

Noun
a piece of land where waste materials are dumped

Noun
a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit"

Verb
knock down with force; "He decked his opponent"

Verb
fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well"

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Verb
drop in a heap or mass

Verb
sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly; "The company dumped him after many years of service"; "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man"

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throw away as refuse; "No dumping in these woods!"

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sell at artificially low prices

n.
A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

v. t.
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.

v. t.
Absence of mind; revery.

v. t.
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

v. t.
An old kind of dance.

v. t.
To knock heavily; to stump.

v. t.
To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.

n.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

n.
A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

n.
That which is dumped.

n.
A pile of ore or rock.

Dump

Dump , n. [See Dumpling.] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] Smart.

Dump

Dump, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. dumpin melancholy, Dan.dump dull, low, D. dompig damp, G. dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E. damp, or rather perh. dump, v. t. Cf. Damp, or Dump, v. t.] 1. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.

March slowly on in solemn dump.

Doleful dumps the mind oppress.

I was musing in the midst of my dumps.

&hand; The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. "Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being `in the dumps' after the battle of Cann'91." Trench. 2. Absence of mind; revery. Locke. 3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.] "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump." Shak. 4. An old kind of dance. [Obs.] Nares.

Dump

Dump , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping.] [OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw. dimpa to fall down plump. Cf. Dump sadness.] 1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 2. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. [U.S.] Bartlett. Dumping car ∨ cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; -- called also dump car, or dump cart.

Dump

Dump, n. 1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. 2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc. 3. That which is dumped. 4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock.

A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.

To knock heavily; to stump.

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

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Usage Examples

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.