dump Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a coarse term for defecation
    shit.
    • he took a shit
  2. noun a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
    trash dump; rubbish dump; dumpsite; wasteyard; waste-yard; garbage dump.
  3. noun (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
  4. noun a place where supplies can be stored
    • an ammunition dump
  5. verb throw away as refuse
    • No dumping in these woods!
  6. verb sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
    ditch.
    • The company dumped him after many years of service
    • She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man
  7. verb sell at artificially low prices
    underprice.
  8. verb drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
    • The truck dumped the garbage in the street
  9. verb fall abruptly
    plunge.
    • It plunged to the bottom of the well
  10. verb knock down with force
    knock down; floor; coldcock; deck.
    • He decked his opponent

WordNet

Dump noun
Etymology
See Dumpling.
Definitions
  1. A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. Eng. Smart.
Dump noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
    March slowly on in solemn dump. Hudibras.
    Doleful dumps the mind oppress. Shak.
    I was musing in the midst of my dumps. Bunyan.
    ✍ 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 Cannæ." Trench.
  2. Absence of mind; revery. Locke.
  3. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. Obs. "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump." Shak.
  4. An old kind of dance. Obs. Nares.
Dump transitive verb
Etymology
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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Dumped ; present participle & verbal noun Dumping
Definitions
  1. To knock heavily; to stump. Prov. Eng. Halliwell.
  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.
Dump noun
Definitions
  1. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  2. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
  3. That which is dumped.
  4. (Mining) A pile of ore or rock.

Webster 1913