Dictionary Entry
dump
dump is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 21 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
- 2transitive verb
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
- 3transitive verb
Absence of mind; revery.
- 4transitive verb
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
- 5transitive verb
An old kind of dance.
- 6transitive verb
To knock heavily; to stump.
- 7transitive verb
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.
- 8noun
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- 9noun
A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
- 10noun
That which is dumped.
- 11noun
A pile of ore or rock.
- 12noun
a place where supplies can be stored
"an ammunition dump"
- 13noun
(computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
- 14noun
a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
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- 15noun
a coarse term for defecation
"he took a shit"
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- 16verb
knock down with force
"He decked his opponent"
- 17verb
fall abruptly
"It plunged to the bottom of the well"
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- 18verb
drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
"The truck dumped the garbage in the street"
- 19verb
sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
"The company dumped him after many years of service"
"She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man"
Synonyms
- 20verb
throw away as refuse
"No dumping in these woods!"
- 21verb
sell at artificially low prices
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