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Dump   /dəmp/   Listen
noun
Dump  n.  A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. (Eng.)


Dump  n.  
1.
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; now used only in the plural. "March slowly on in solemn dump." "Doleful dumps the mind oppress." "I was musing in the midst of my dumps." Note: The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. "Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being in the dumps' after the battle of Cannae."
2.
Absence of mind; revery.
3.
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. (Obs.) "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump."
4.
An old kind of dance. (Obs.)


Dump  n.  
1.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
2.
A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
3.
That which is dumped.
4.
(Mining) A pile of ore or rock.


dump  n.  A coarse term for defecation.
Synonyms: shit.


verb
Dump  v. t.  (past & past part. dumped; pres. part. dumping)  
1.
To knock heavily; to stump. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
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. (U.S.)
Dumping car or Dumping cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; called also dump car, or dump cart.





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"Dump" Quotes from Famous Books



... it. The rest of you can vote it as you choose: divide the proxies pro rata, based on your individual holdings. But I reserve the right to dump it all on the market at the first sign of shady ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
... don't," objected Mr. Simpson gallantly, turning the horse. "Do you think I'd let a little creeter like you lug that great heavy bundle? I hain't got time to go back to Meserve's, but I'll take you to the corner and dump you there, flag n' all, and you can get some o' the men-folks to carry it the rest o' the way. You'll wear it out, ...
— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... meantime, however, all the other nations would dump their silver upon us and we should be overloaded ...
— If Not Silver, What? • John W. Bookwalter
... there was nothing—nothing but the track by which they had arrived, and the Downs, and a distant blur to the west in the shape of the Epsom Grand Stand, and the heavy, ceaseless rain, and the threat of the fast-descending night. According to the theory of the Divisional Staff a dump furnished by the Army Service Corps ought to have existed at a spot corresponding to the final letter in the words 'Burgh Heath' on the map, but the information quickly became general that no such dump did in practice exist. To George the situation was merely incredible. He knew ...
— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett
... in Johnny's way, Came a little dog one day; Johnny's eyes were still astray Up on high, In the sky; And he never heard them cry— "Johnny, mind, the dog is nigh!" Bump! Dump! Down they fell, with such a thump. Dog and Johnny in ...
— CAW! CAW! - The Chronicle of Crows, A Tale of the Spring-time • RM


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