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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

  1. 1noun

    A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

  2. 2transitive verb

    A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.

  3. 3transitive verb

    Absence of mind; revery.

  4. 4transitive verb

    A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

  5. 5transitive verb

    An old kind of dance.

  6. 6transitive verb

    To knock heavily; to stump.

  7. 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.

  8. 8noun

    A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

  9. 9noun

    A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.

  10. 10noun

    That which is dumped.

  11. 11noun

    A pile of ore or rock.

  12. 12noun

    a place where supplies can be stored

    "an ammunition dump"

  13. 13noun

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

  14. 14noun

    a piece of land where waste materials are dumped

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  15. 15noun

    a coarse term for defecation

    "he took a shit"

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  16. 16verb

    knock down with force

    "He decked his opponent"

  17. 17verb

    fall abruptly

    "It plunged to the bottom of the well"

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  18. 18verb

    drop (stuff) in a heap or mass

    "The truck dumped the garbage in the street"

  19. 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"

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  20. 20verb

    throw away as refuse

    "No dumping in these woods!"

  21. 21verb

    sell at artificially low prices

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