Definition of "dump"
- noun
A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
An act of dumping, or its result.
A storage place for supplies, especially military.
An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
An act of defecation; a defecating.
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural).
Absence of mind; revery.
A pile of ore or rock.
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
An old kind of dance.
(Australia) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.
- verb
To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
(computing) To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
(informal) To end a relationship with.
To knock heavily; to stump.
(US) 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.
(US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
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