Dump

Noun

 * 1) A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
 * A toxic waste dump.
 * 1) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
 * 2) That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
 * 3)  An act of dumping, or its result.
 * The new XML dump is coming soon.
 * 1) A storage place for supplies, especially military.
 * 2) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
 * This place looks like a dump.
 * Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
 * 1)  An act of defecation; a defecating.
 * To take a dump.
 * 1) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural).
 * March slowly on in solemn dump. -- Hudibras.
 * Doleful dumps the mind oppress. --William Shakespeare
 * I was musing in the midst of my dumps. --John Bunyan.
 * 1) Absence of mind; revery.
 * 2)  A pile of ore or rock.
 * 3)  A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
 * Tune a deploring dump.
 * Play me some merry dump. --William Shakespeare
 * 1)  An old kind of dance.
 * 2)   A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin.

Verb

 * 1)  To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
 * 2)  To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
 * 3)   To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
 * 4)   To end a relationship with.
 * 5)  To knock heavily; to stump.
 * 6)  🇺🇸 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.
 * 7)  🇺🇸 To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:junk

Derived terms

 * dumping car, dump car
 * dumping cart, dump cart
 * dump on
 * dump and burn

Thesaurus
Augean stables, Parthian shot, abandon, abase, abasement, abash, abjure, abundance, accumulation, affront, amassment, ammo dump, archives, armory, arsenal, artillery park, aspersion, atomic arsenal, atrocity, attic, 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, 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

Etymology
Akin to Old Norse dumpa: ( > Danish dumpe:)

Noun

 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: бунище, отвал
 * Dutch: vuilnisbelt
 * Finnish: kaatopaikka


 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: basural, tiradero, vertedero


 * : depósito, basurero
 * : discarica

Verb

 * Bulgarian: стоварвам
 * Esperanto: ŝuti
 * Polish:


 * Swedish: dumpa


 * Afrikaans:
 * Bulgarian: отървавам се от
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish: pozbyć się


 * Sotho: lahla
 * Spanish: tirar a la basura, arrojar
 * Swedish: ,


 * Italian:, scaricare dati
 * Spanish: volcar en memoria


 * Swedish: dumpa


 * Dutch: dumpen
 * Finnish: tehdä bänät, dumpata
 * French:


 * Italian:, ,
 * Polish: zerwać
 * Swedish:, dumpa,


 * Spanish: echar