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. noun. A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
2. transitive verb. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
3. transitive verb. Absence of mind; revery.
4. transitive verb. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
5. transitive verb. An old kind of dance.
6. transitive verb. To knock heavily; to stump.
7. transitive 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. noun. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
9. noun. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
10. noun. That which is dumped.
11. noun. A pile of ore or rock.
12. noun. a place where supplies can be stored

    "an ammunition dump"

13. noun. (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
14. noun. a piece of land where waste materials are dumped

    Synonyms: dumpsite, wasteyard

15. noun. a coarse term for defecation

    "he took a shit"

    Synonyms: shit

16. verb. knock down with force

    "He decked his opponent"

    Synonyms: coldcock, deck, floor

17. verb. fall abruptly

    "It plunged to the bottom of the well"

    Synonyms: plunge

18. verb. drop (stuff) in a heap or mass

    "The truck dumped the garbage in the street"

19. verb. 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: ditch

20. verb. throw away as refuse

    "No dumping in these woods!"

21. verb. sell at artificially low prices

    Synonyms: underprice

Synonyms

dumpsite, wasteyard, shit, coldcock, deck, floor, plunge, ditch, underprice

Common word forms

dumps, dumped, dumper, dumping

Words from these letters

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