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A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- a toxic waste dump
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A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
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That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
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That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.; A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.Internet
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An act of dumping, or its result.
- The new XML dump is coming soon.
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A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
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A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- an ammo dump
- a munitions dump
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An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.slang
- This place looks like a dump.
- Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
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An act of defecation; a defecating.euphemisticoftenslang
- I have to take a dump.
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A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.plural-normally
- […] doleful dumps the mind oppress […]
- […] I was musing in the midst of my dumps […]
dump
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To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.transitive
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To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.transitive
- The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene,
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To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.transitive
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To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.transitive
- to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge
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To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.transitive
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To end a romantic relationship with.informaltransitive
- Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.
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To knock heavily; to stump.Scotlandobsoletetransitive
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To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting ittransitive
- We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.
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To precipitate (especially snow or rain) heavily.UStransitive
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Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.Australiatransitive
- Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.]
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A thick, ill-shapen piece.UKarchaic
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A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.UKarchaic
- The capons were leaden representations of cocks and hens pitched at by leaden dumps.
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A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.Northern-England