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Definition of Dump
1. Verb. Throw away as refuse. "No dumping in these woods!"
2. Noun. A coarse term for defecation. "He took a shit"
3. Verb. Sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly. "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man"
4. Noun. A piece of land where waste materials are dumped.
Specialized synonyms: Eitchen Midden, Kitchen Midden, Midden, Garbage Heap, Junk Heap, Junk Pile, Refuse Heap, Rubbish Heap, Scrapheap, Trash Heap, Trash Pile, Toxic Dumpsite, Toxic Waste Dump, Toxic Waste Site
Generic synonyms: Land Site, Site
Derivative terms: Dumpy
5. Verb. Sell at artificially low prices.
6. Noun. (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs.
Specialized synonyms: Core Dump
Generic synonyms: Copy, Written Matter
7. Verb. Drop (stuff) in a heap or mass. "They dump the books into the box"; "The truck dumped the garbage in the street"
8. Noun. A place where supplies can be stored. "An ammunition dump"
9. Verb. Fall abruptly. "It plunged to the bottom of the well"
Related verbs: Dive, Plunge, Plunk
Generic synonyms: Drop
Derivative terms: Plunge, Plunger
10. Verb. Knock down with force. "The fighter managed to dump his opponent"; "He decked his opponent"
Generic synonyms: Beat
Derivative terms: Floor, Floor, Knockdown
Definition of Dump
1. n. A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
2. n. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
3. v. t. To knock heavily; to stump.
4. n. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
Definition of Dump
1. Noun. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc. ¹
2. Noun. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. ¹
3. Noun. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess. ¹
4. Noun. (computing) An act of dumping, or its result. ¹
5. Noun. A storage place for supplies, especially military. ¹
6. Noun. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place. ¹
7. Noun. (vulgar) An act of defecation; a defecating. ¹
8. Noun. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (''usually plural''). ¹
9. Noun. Absence of mind; revery. ¹
10. Noun. (mining) A pile of ore or rock. ¹
11. Noun. (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. ¹
12. Noun. (obsolete) An old kind of dance. ¹
13. Noun. (historical) (Australia) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin. ¹
14. Verb. (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. ¹
15. Verb. (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore. ¹
16. Verb. (transitive) (computing) To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it. ¹
17. Verb. (transitive) (informal) To end a relationship with. ¹
18. Verb. (transitive) To knock heavily; to stump. ¹
19. Verb. (transitive) (American English) 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. ¹
20. Verb. (transitive) (American English) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dump
1. to let fall heavily [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Dump
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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." (Hudibras) "Doleful dumps the mind oppress." (Shak) "I was musing in the midst of my dumps." (Bunyan)
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 Cannae."
2. Absence of mind; revery.
3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump."
4. An old kind of dance.
Origin: 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.
1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
3. That which is dumped.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dump
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