'DUMP' definitions:
Definition of 'Dump'
From: GCIDE
- Dump \Dump\, n.
- 1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which is dumped. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dump'
From: GCIDE
- Dump \Dump\ (d[u^]mp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Dumping.] [OE. dumpen to throw down, fall down, cf. Icel. dumpa to thump, Dan. dumpe to fall suddenly, rush, dial. Sw. dimpa to fall down plump. Cf. Dump sadness.]
- 1. To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dump'
From: GCIDE
- Dump \Dump\ (d[u^]mp), n. [See Dumpling.] A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] --Smart. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dump'
From: GCIDE
- Dump \Dump\, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. dumpin melancholy, Dan.dump dull, low, D. dompig damp, G. dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E. damp, or rather perh. dump, v. t. Cf. Damp, or Dump, v. t.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- March slowly on in solemn dump. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
- Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster]
- 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 Cann[ae]." --Trench. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Absence of mind; revery. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. [Obs.] "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. An old kind of dance. [Obs.] --Nares. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dump'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abase,
- abasement,
- abash,
- abjure,
- abundance,
- accumulation,
- affront,
- amassment,
- ammo dump,
- archives,
- armory,
- arsenal,
- artillery park,
- aspersion,
- atomic arsenal,
- atrocity,
- attic,
- Augean stables,
- back answer,
- backlog,
- bank,
- basement,
- baste,
- batter,
- bay,
- beat,
- belabor,
- bin,
- bog,
- bonded warehouse,
- bookcase,
- bordello,
- box,
- break bulk,
- brickbat,
- bring down,
- bring low,
- brothel,
- budget,
- buffet,
- bunker,
- buttery,
- cargo dock,
- cast,
- cast aside,
- cast away,
- cast off,
- cathouse,
- caustic remark,
- cede,
- cellar,
- cesspool,
- chest,
- chuck,
- chuck out,
- clear the trade,
- clip joint,
- cloaca,
- cloaca maxima,
- close out,
- closet,
- collection,
- colluvies,
- comeback,
- comedown,
- commissariat,
- commissary,
- compost heap,
- conservatory,
- contempt,
- contumely,
- convert,
- convert into cash,
- cornucopia,
- crack,
- crate,
- crib,
- crush,
- cumulation,
- cupboard,
- cut,
- cut under,
- cutting remark,
- debase,
- debasement,
- deep-six,
- deflation,
- degrade,
- demean,
- den,
- den of thieves,
- deposit,
- depository,
- depot,
- descent,
- despite,
- dig,
- diminish,
- disburden,
- discard,
- discharge,
- disgorge,
- disgrace,
- dispense with,
- dispose of,
- ditch,
- dive,
- do without,
- dock,
- drain,
- drawer,
- drop,
- drub,
- dump on,
- dunghill,
- dustheap,
- effect a sale,
- eighty-six,
- eliminate,
- embarrassment,
- empty,
- enormity,
- exchequer,
- fleer,
- fleshpots,
- flout,
- flouting,
- foolery,
- forgo,
- forswear,
- garbage dump,
- get along without,
- get quit of,
- get rid of,
- get shut of,
- gibe,
- gibing retort,
- give away,
- give up,
- glory hole,
- godown,
- gun park,
- gyp joint,
- hammer,
- hangdog look,
- have done with,
- heap,
- hoard,
- hold,
- hole,
- hovel,
- humbled pride,
- humiliation,
- hutch,
- indignity,
- injury,
- insult,
- inventory,
- jab,
- jape,
- jeer,
- jeering,
- jest,
- jettison,
- jilt,
- job,
- joint,
- junk,
- junkyard,
- kiss good-bye,
- kitchen midden,
- lair,
- lam,
- lambaste,
- larder,
- leg-pull,
- letdown,
- library,
- liquidate,
- locker,
- lower,
- lumber room,
- lumberyard,
- magasin,
- magazine,
- make a sacrifice,
- make a sale,
- manure pile,
- market,
- marsh,
- mass,
- material,
- materials,
- materiel,
- merchandise,
- midden,
- mire,
- mixen,
- mock,
- mockery,
- mortification,
- move,
- munitions,
- off-load,
- offense,
- offload,
- outrage,
- park,
- part with,
- Parthian shot,
- parting shot,
- pesthole,
- pigpen,
- pigsty,
- pile,
- plague spot,
- plenitude,
- plenty,
- provisionment,
- provisions,
- put down,
- put-down,
- put-on,
- quagmire,
- quip,
- quitclaim,
- rack,
- rations,
- recant,
- reduce,
- refuse heap,
- reject,
- relinquish,
- remove,
- render up,
- renounce,
- repertoire,
- repertory,
- repository,
- resell,
- reservoir,
- resign,
- retail,
- retract,
- rick,
- rookery,
- rubbish heap,
- rude reproach,
- sacrifice,
- scoff,
- scrap,
- scurrility,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-diminishment,
- sell,
- sell off,
- sell on consignment,
- sell out,
- sell over,
- sell retail,
- sell short,
- sell up,
- sell wholesale,
- septic tank,
- set down,
- setdown,
- sewer,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- shelf,
- short answer,
- sink,
- slam,
- slap,
- slough,
- slum,
- spare,
- sporting house,
- stable,
- stack,
- stack room,
- stews,
- stock,
- stock room,
- stock-in-trade,
- stockpile,
- storage,
- store,
- storehouse,
- storeroom,
- stores,
- sty,
- sump,
- supplies,
- supply base,
- supply depot,
- supply on hand,
- surrender,
- swamp,
- swear off,
- swipe,
- take down,
- tank,
- taunt,
- tenement,
- terminate the account,
- the slums,
- throw away,
- throw down,
- throw out,
- throw over,
- throw overboard,
- throw up,
- tip,
- toss out,
- toss overboard,
- trash pile,
- treasure,
- treasure house,
- treasure room,
- treasury,
- trip up,
- tumbledown shack,
- turn into money,
- turn over,
- twit,
- unburden,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- undercut,
- undersell,
- unlade,
- unload,
- unpack,
- unship,
- vacate,
- vat,
- vault,
- verbal thrust,
- waive,
- wallop,
- warehouse,
- warren,
- wasteyard,
- wholesale,
- whorehouse,
- wine cellar,
- yield
Acronyms for 'dump'
From: V.E.R.A.
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