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Dump

noun

1.

A coarse term for defecation. Synonym: shit.

2.

A piece of land where waste materials are dumped. Synonyms: dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard.

3.

(computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs.

4.

A place where supplies can be stored.

verb

(past & past part. dumped; pres. part. dumping)

1.

Throw away as refuse.

2.

Sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly. Synonym: ditch. "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man"

3.

Sell at artificially low prices. Synonym: underprice.

4.

Drop (stuff) in a heap or mass.

5.

Fall abruptly. Synonym: plunge.

6.

Knock down with force. Synonyms: coldcock, deck, floor, knock down.

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"Dump" Quotes from Famous Books

... the ship and ready for a second cargo before the last tender had set out upon its first trip, and then for several hours this slavish activity continued. Some crews lost themselves in the gloom, fetched up on the reef, and were forced to dump their freight into the foam, trusting to salvage it when daylight came. Every one was wet to the skin; bodies steamed in the heat; men who had pulled at oars until their hands were raw and bleeding cursed and groaned at their own fatigue. But there was little shirking; those whose strength completely ...

— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach

... an especially big melon McNutt would lug it to the carriage and dump it in. And so angry and energetic was the little man that in a brief space the melon patch was a scene of awful devastation, and the surrey contained all the fruit that ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne

... people would own American railway and industrial shares. This could be only for the great benefit of this country but for Europe as well, for the reason that if Europe knew that there was a good absorbing power here it necessarily would not dump its stocks at ...

— The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914 • Henry George Stebbins Noble

... charge. If they heard that shot, I will say one of us dropped a bottle of champagne, and it exploded.... When they are gone, I bring the dory alongside; and with your help it should be an easy matter to carry this body up, weight it, row it out to the middle of the lagoon, dump it overboard. Then we return. Our story is, the commander followed the anchor watch ashore; if later he wandered off, got lost in the woods in his alcoholic delirium, that is no affair of ...

— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph

... plans; projects which entailed work from morning until night for many a day to come. There was a track to lay, an extra skip to be lowered, that they might haul the muck and broken timbers from the cave-in to the shaft and on out to the dump. There were stulls and mill-stakes and laggs to cut and to be taken into the shaft. And there was good, hard work of muscle and brawn and pick and shovel, that muck might be torn away from the cave-in, and good timbers put in place, to hold the hanging wall from repeating ...

— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper

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