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Dump   /dəmp/   Listen
Dump

noun
1.
A coarse term for defecation.  Synonym: shit.
2.
A piece of land where waste materials are dumped.  Synonyms: dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard.
3.
(computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs.
4.
A place where supplies can be stored.
verb
(past & past part. dumped; pres. part. dumping)
1.
Throw away as refuse.
2.
Sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly.  Synonym: ditch.  "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man"
3.
Sell at artificially low prices.  Synonym: underprice.
4.
Drop (stuff) in a heap or mass.
5.
Fall abruptly.  Synonym: plunge.
6.
Knock down with force.  Synonyms: coldcock, deck, floor, knock down.



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"Dump" Quotes from Famous Books



... voice. Urging the wearied horses they pressed on a little faster. It was almost dark, however, when they reached the edge of an opening in the firs and saw a cluster of iron-roofed, wooden buildings and a tall chimney-stack, in front of which the unsightly ore-dump extended. Wet, chilled and worn out as the men were, there was comfort in the sight; but Vane frowned as he noticed that a shallow lake stretched between him and the buildings. On one side of it there ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss
... I came to the first apple-tree. I shinned up that tree in a jiffy (old Snaggletooth didn't put in an appearance), filled my bag with jolly fat apples, and slid down again. But when I came to lift the bag up on my shoulder, I found it was awful heavy to carry so far, and I was just agoing to dump some of the apples out, when I remembered all of a sudden that if I cut across the meadow to the plank-road, I could get back to the hotel in a little more than half the time it would take to go ...
— Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... night. The wind is usually from the east in that part of Brazil. Blowing over the Atlantic it gathers up moisture to dump on the eastern slope of the Andes. The summits drain the clouds and makes Peru a dry country. It was murky now, and the ...
— Boy Scouts in an Airship • G. Harvey Ralphson
... golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. After your dire-lamenting elegies, Visit by night your lady's chamber-window With some sweet consort: to their instruments Tune a deploring dump; the night's dead silence Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance. This, or else ...
— The Two Gentlemen of Verona • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... Buck grabbed her chair and tipped it forward violently in order to dump her off his sacred platform. She fled out into space with a flutter of skirts, landed lightly as a cat and pirouetted on one toe, crooking her arms in the professional pose ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various


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