Definition of Dump

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Definition of Dump

Dump

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

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

Absence of mind; revery.

A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

An old kind of dance.

To knock heavily; to stump.

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.

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

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

That which is dumped.

A pile of ore or rock.

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Dump Quotations

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Erma Bombeck

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.
Jack Kevorkian

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
Charles Barkley

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
Van Morrison

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
James Herriot

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.
Robert Downey, Jr.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
Sally Ride

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Russell Baker

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.
Cliff Richard

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.
Sheena Easton

Dump Translations

dump in Dutch is stortplaats
dump in French is vidage
dump in German is Anzeige {f}, Auslistung {f}
dump in Spanish is basurero, vertedero
dump in Swedish is soptipp, dumpa

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