Definition of Dump

  • (n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
  • (v. t.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
  • (v. t.) Absence of mind; revery.
  • (v. t.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
  • (v. t.) An old kind of dance.
  • (v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  • (n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
  • (n.) That which is dumped.
  • (n.) A pile of ore or rock.

Antonyms of Dump


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Homophones of Dump


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