Definitions for dump

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Spelling: [duhmp]

IPA: /dʌmp/

Dump is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in dump (dmpu).

Definitions for dump

noun

1. an accumulation of discarded garbage, refuse, etc.
2. Also called dumpsite, dumping-ground. a place where garbage, refuse, etc., is deposited.
3. Military. a collection of ammunition, stores, etc., deposited at some point, as near a battlefront, for distribution. the ammunition, stores, etc., so deposited.
4. the act of dumping.
5. Mining. a runway or embankment equipped with tripping devices, from which low-grade ore, rock, etc., are dumped. the pile of ore so dumped.
6. Informal. a place, house, or town that is dilapidated, dirty, or disreputable.
7. (in merchandising) a bin or specially made carton in which items are displayed for sale:
8. Computers. a copy of the contents of a computer's internal storage or of the contents of a file at a given instant, that is printed, displayed, or stored on an output medium.

Idioms

1. dump on (someone), Informal. to attack with verbal abuse; criticize harshly: to unload one's problems onto (another person):

verb (used with object)

1. to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly:
2. to empty out, as from a container, by tilting or overturning.
3. to unload or empty out (a container), as by tilting or overturning.
4. to be dismissed, fired, or released from a contract:
5. to transfer or rid oneself of suddenly and irresponsibly:
6. Boxing Slang. to knock down: to lose (a match) intentionally:
7. Commerce. to put (goods or securities) on the market in large quantities and at a low price without regard to the effect on market conditions. to sell (goods) into foreign markets below cost in order to promote exports or damage foreign competition.
8. Computers. to print, display, or record on an output medium (the contents of a computer's internal storage or the contents of a file), often at the time a program fails.
9. Slang. to kill; murder:

verb (used without object)

1. to fall or drop down suddenly.
2. to throw away or discard garbage, refuse, etc.
3. Commerce. to offer goods for sale in large quantities at a low price. to dump below-cost goods into foreign markets.
4. to release contents:
5. Slang. to complain, criticize, gossip, or tell another person one's problems:
6. Slang: Vulgar. to defecate.

Origin of dump

1250-1300; Middle English (in sense “to fall suddenly”) Old Norse dumpa strike, bump; modern senses as transitive v. and noun (not known before 19th cent.) perhaps

Examples for dump

Americans dump a lot of food and all the energy it takes to produce it.

And the willingness to dump on British women in the name of Sharia law is a rot that runs up and down the length of society.

He'd destroyed the lethal bacterial cultures they'd been ordered to dump on Weald.

As he stepped on the curb, two guys in a dump truck started honking their horn.

For just before us under the dump was a cave with walls of papers and rags.

I certainly didn't do it to help them dump germ-cultures on Weald!

However, her popularity is waning as the big 3-0 approaches, so Garfield decides to dump her at an antique furniture store.

From the kitchen came the dump of an iron, and cheerful singing.

And I said that it seemed an unhealthy thing to dump all our refuse so close to the city.

They had a comic book section, and I would bring all the change I collected from the week and dump it on the comic book stand.