Meaning

19 senses
  1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.

    a toxic waste dump

    Kippe, Müllkippe, Deponie

    сва́лкаsválka, помо́йкаpomójka

  2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

  3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.

  4. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.

    (Internet)A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.

  5. An act of dumping, or its result.

    The new XML dump is coming soon.

  6. A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.

  7. A storage place for supplies, especially military.

    an ammo dump

    a munitions dump

    a place where supplies can be stored

  8. (slang)An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.

    This place looks like a dump.

    Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.

  9. (euphemistic, often, slang)An act of defecation; a defecating.

    I have to take a dump.

    a coarse term for defecation

  10. (usually plural)A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.

  11. Absence of mind; reverie.

  12. A pile of ore or rock.

Examples

365 sentences
  1. I hear Tom finally dumped you.

    Я чув, що Том врешті-решт розірвав із тобою стосунки.

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  2. She dumped him for a younger man.

    Вона кинула його заради молодшого чоловіка.

    ruОна бросила его ради мужика помоложе.

    deSie hat ihn wegen eines jüngeren Mannes verlassen.

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  3. Tom has been dumped by his girlfriend.

    Тома кинула дівчина.

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  4. The truck dumped the sand on the ground.

    Вантажівка висипала пісок на землю.

    ruГрузовик высыпал песок на землю.

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  5. My girlfriend dumped me.

    Моя дівчина мене кинула.

    ruМоя девушка меня бросила.

    deMeine Freundin hat mich verlassen.

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Translations

7 languages
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a place where waste or garbage is left:
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a place where waste or garbage is left:

Origin

From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Dan

From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.

See dumpling.

Cognate with Scots dump (“hole in the ground”), Norwegian dump (“a depression or hole in the ground”), German Low German dumpen (“to submerge”), Dutch dompen (“to dip, sink, submerge”).

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