English Explanatory Dictionary

dump

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
  2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
  4. A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
  5. An act of dumping, or its result.
  6. A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
  7. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
  8. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
  9. An act of defecation; a defecating.
  10. A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
  11. Absence of mind; reverie.
  12. A pile of ore or rock.
verb
  1. To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
  2. To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
  3. To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
  4. To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
  5. To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
  6. To end a romantic relationship with.
  7. To knock heavily; to stump.
  8. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
  9. To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
  10. Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
noun
  1. A thick, ill-shapen piece.
  2. A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
noun
  1. A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
name
  1. A city in Toledo District, Belize.
name
  1. Donald Trump.

Pronunciation

/dʌmp/ [dɐm̥p] EN-AU ck1 dump.ogg

Word forms

dump dumps dumping dumped

Etymology

From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.

Synonyms

chuck heave bung cast chunk cook dash dump feck fling jerk hield hoy huck hurl hurtle launch lob peck peg pick pitch precipitate project quoit shy slight skew sling thrill throw toss traject warp whang whip whop wing

Related words

holey dollar dimple dip

Derived words

ashdump block dump blumpkin brain dump core dump crashdump crash dump cumdump down in the dumps dumpbin dump bin dump cake dumpcart dump core dump dinner dumpish dump job dump months dumpsite dump stat dump store dump tackle dump truck dumpy dumpyard garbage dump heat dump info-dump infodump in the dumps mag dump megadump memory dump minidump pump and dump rubbish dump screen dump stump dump take a dump trauma dump redump antidumping book dumping dumpable dumpage dump-and-bake dump and burn dumpee dumper dumping car dump car dumping cart dump cart dumping ground dumping syndrome dump on dump one's load dump out dumpster Dumpsville
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