dump

Meanings

Plural: dumps

Noun

• a coarse term for defecation
• a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
• (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
• a place where supplies can be stored
  • "an ammunition dump"
• A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
• A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
• That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
• That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
• A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
• An act of dumping, or its result.
• A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
• A storage place for supplies, especially military.
• An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
• An act of defecation; a defecating.
• A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
• Absence of mind; reverie.
• A pile of ore or rock.
• A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
• An old kind of dance.
• A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
• A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
• A thick, ill-shapen piece.
• A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
• A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

Verb

• throw away as refuse
  • "No dumping in these woods!"
• 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"
• sell at artificially low prices
• drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
  • "The truck dumped the garbage in the street"
• fall abruptly
• knock down with force
• To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
• To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
• To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
• To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
• To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
• To end a romantic relationship with.
• To knock heavily; to stump.
• To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
• To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
• Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.

Synonyms

bung, cast, chuck, chunk, coldcock, cook, dash, deck, ditch, dump, dumpsite, feck, fling, floor, garbage dump, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, jerk, knock down, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, plunge, precipitate, project, quoit, rubbish dump, shit, shy, skew, slight, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, trash dump, underprice, warp, waste-yard, wasteyard, whang, whip, whop, wing

Related Words

dimple, dip, holey dollar