Standard Lemma guide

dump

name · noun · verb · 41 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /dʌmp/
  • [dɐm̥p]
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  • rhymes with -ʌmp
  • CMU ARPABET: D AH1 M P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A city in Toledo District, Belize.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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2

name

Meaning 2

Donald Trump.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, derogatory, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a toxic waste dump

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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5

noun

Meaning 5

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

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6

noun

Meaning 6

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

A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

An act of dumping, or its result.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • The new XML dump is coming soon.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

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9

noun

Meaning 9

A storage place for supplies, especially military.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • an ammo dump
  • a munitions dump

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

Examples

  • This place looks like a dump.
  • Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

An act of defecation; a defecating.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: euphemistic, often, slang

Examples

  • I have to take a dump.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: plural-normally

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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13

noun

Meaning 13

Absence of mind; reverie.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

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14

noun

Meaning 14

A pile of ore or rock.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: business, mining

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

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16

noun

Meaning 16

An old kind of dance.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

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17

noun

Meaning 17

A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, Canada, historical

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Synonyms: none provided

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18

noun

Meaning 18

A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: business, marketing

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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19

noun

Meaning 19

A thick, ill-shapen piece.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, archaic

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20

noun

Meaning 20

A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, archaic

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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21

noun

Meaning 21

A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Northern-England

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

22

verb

Meaning 22

To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

23

verb

Meaning 23

To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

24

verb

Meaning 24

To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

25

verb

Meaning 25

To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

26

verb

Meaning 26

To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

27

verb

Meaning 27

To end a romantic relationship with.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, transitive

Examples

  • Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

28

verb

Meaning 28

To knock heavily; to stump.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Scotland, obsolete, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

29

verb

Meaning 29

To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chuck, heave, bung, cast, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, jerk, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing, yeet

Antonyms: none provided

30

verb

Meaning 30

To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, transitive

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Synonyms: none provided

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31

verb

Meaning 31

Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

32

noun

Meaning 32

a place where supplies can be stored

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • an ammunition dump

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store

33

noun

Meaning 33

(computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: copy, written matter

Narrower terms: core dump

34

noun

Meaning 34

a piece of land where waste materials are dumped

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: garbage dump, trash dump, rubbish dump, wasteyard, waste-yard, dumpsite

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: site, land site

Narrower terms: eitchen midden, midden, kitchen midden, garbage heap, junk heap, rubbish heap, scrapheap, trash heap, junk pile, trash pile, refuse heap, toxic waste dump, toxic waste site, toxic dumpsite

35

noun

Meaning 35

a coarse term for defecation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he took a shit

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: shit

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: defecation, laxation, shitting

36

verb

Meaning 36

knock down with force

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • He decked his opponent

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: deck, coldcock, knock down, floor

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: beat

37

verb

Meaning 37

fall abruptly

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • It plunged to the bottom of the well

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: plunge

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: drop

38

verb

Meaning 38

drop (stuff) in a heap or mass

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The truck dumped the garbage in the street

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: drop

39

verb

Meaning 39

sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The company dumped him after many years of service
  • She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ditch

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: get rid of, remove

40

verb

Meaning 40

throw away as refuse

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • No dumping in these woods!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away

41

verb

Meaning 41

sell at artificially low prices

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: underprice

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: sell

History

Etymology

From dump, as a pun on Trump.

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”).

Across languages

Translations

136 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مَزْبَلَة (mazbala) — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Arabic: نُفَايَة (nufāya) — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Arabic: مَكَان إِلْقَاء الْقُمَامَة (makān ʔilqāʔ al-qumāma) — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Armenian: աղբանոց (aġbanocʻ) — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Armenian: զիբիլանոց (zibilanocʻ) — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Bulgarian: бунище (bunište) — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Bulgarian: отвал (otval) — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Catalan: abocador — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Czech: smetiště — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Czech: skládka — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Dutch: vuilnisbelt — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Esperanto: ŝutejo — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Finnish: kaatopaikka — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • French: décharge — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • French: dépotoir — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Galician: vertedoiro — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Galician: dala — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • German: Kippe — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • German: Müllkippe — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • German: Deponie — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Hungarian: szemétlerakóhely — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Italian: discarica — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Japanese: ゴミ捨て場 (gomisuteba) — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Macedonian: ѓу́бриште (ǵúbrište) — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Macedonian: бу́ниште (búnište) — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Ojibwe: ziigwebinigan — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Plautdietsch: Schuntaka — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Polish: śmietnik — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Portuguese: aterro — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Portuguese: lixão — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Russian: сва́лка (sválka) — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Russian: помо́йка (pomójka) — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Serbo-Croatian: smetlište — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Sicilian: munnizzaru — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Spanish: basural — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Spanish: basurero — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Spanish: botadero — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Spanish: tiradero — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Spanish: vertedero — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Swedish: soptipp — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Tagalog: agsaman — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Venetan: chipa — a place where waste or garbage is left
  • Spanish: antro — an unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place
  • Bulgarian: стоварвам (stovarvam) — to release
  • Catalan: abocar — to release
  • Catalan: llençar — to release
  • Esperanto: ŝuti — to release
  • Finnish: päästää menemään — to release
  • German: freisetzen — to release
  • Italian: scaricare — to release
  • Italian: buttare — to release
  • Italian: sversare — to release
  • Polish: upuścić — to release
  • Portuguese: largar — to release
  • Swedish: dumpa — to release
  • Afrikaans: weggooi — to discard, to get rid of
  • Armenian: թափել (tʻapʻel) — to discard, to get rid of
  • Bulgarian: отървавам се от (otǎrvavam se ot) — to discard, to get rid of
  • Catalan: desfer-se — to discard, to get rid of
  • Catalan: desempallegar-se — to discard, to get rid of
  • Finnish: heittää menemään — to discard, to get rid of
  • French: se débarrasser de — to discard, to get rid of
  • German: loswerden — to discard, to get rid of
  • German: entsorgen — to discard, to get rid of
  • Hungarian: kidob — to discard, to get rid of
  • Italian: scaricare — to discard, to get rid of
  • Italian: rovesciare — to discard, to get rid of
  • Khmer: ចោល (caol) — to discard, to get rid of
  • Macedonian: и́сфрли (ísfrli) — to discard, to get rid of
  • Macedonian: и́сфрла (ísfrla) — to discard, to get rid of
  • Māori: whakarei — to discard, to get rid of
  • Polish: pozbyć się — to discard, to get rid of
  • Portuguese: jogar fora — to discard, to get rid of
  • Portuguese: descartar — to discard, to get rid of
  • Russian: выбра́сывать (vybrásyvatʹ) — to discard, to get rid of
  • Russian: вы́бросить (výbrositʹ) — to discard, to get rid of
  • Russian: выки́дывать (vykídyvatʹ) — to discard, to get rid of
  • Russian: вы́кинуть (výkinutʹ) — to discard, to get rid of
  • Sotho: lahla — to discard, to get rid of
  • Spanish: tirar a la basura — to discard, to get rid of
  • Spanish: arrojar — to discard, to get rid of
  • Spanish: verter — to discard, to get rid of
  • Spanish: descargar — to discard, to get rid of
  • Spanish: volcar — to discard, to get rid of
  • Spanish: dompear — to discard, to get rid of
  • Spanish: dumpear — to discard, to get rid of
  • Spanish: echar — to discard, to get rid of
  • Swedish: slänga — to discard, to get rid of
  • Swedish: kasta — to discard, to get rid of
  • Vietnamese: vứt bỏ — to discard, to get rid of
  • Vietnamese: đổ — to discard, to get rid of
  • Yiddish: אַוועקוואַרפֿן (avekvarfn) — to discard, to get rid of
  • Dutch: dumpen — to sell below cost or very cheaply
  • Finnish: dumpata — to sell below cost or very cheaply
  • German: verscherbeln — to sell below cost or very cheaply
  • Russian: сба́грить (sbágritʹ) — to sell below cost or very cheaply
  • Russian: сба́грил (sbágril) — to sell below cost or very cheaply
  • Spanish: dumpear — to sell below cost or very cheaply
  • Ukrainian: демпінгувати (dempinhuvaty) — to sell below cost or very cheaply
  • Finnish: dumpata — to copy data from a system to another place or system
  • German: kopieren — to copy data from a system to another place or system
  • Italian: riversare — to copy data from a system to another place or system
  • Italian: scaricare dati — to copy data from a system to another place or system
  • Spanish: volcar — to copy data from a system to another place or system
  • Swedish: dumpa — to copy data from a system to another place or system
  • Chinese Mandarin: 甩 (shuǎi) — to end a relationship
  • Dutch: dumpen — to end a relationship
  • Finnish: tehdä bänät — to end a relationship
  • Finnish: dumpata — to end a relationship
  • French: larguer — to end a relationship
  • French: domper — to end a relationship
  • German: verlassen — to end a relationship
  • Italian: mollare — to end a relationship
  • Italian: piantare — to end a relationship
  • Italian: scaricare — to end a relationship
  • Macedonian: о́стави (óstavi) — to end a relationship
  • Macedonian: о́ткачи (ótkači) — to end a relationship
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: vraka — to end a relationship
  • Polish: zerwać — to end a relationship
  • Polish: rzucić — to end a relationship
  • Portuguese: terminar — to end a relationship
  • Portuguese: largar — to end a relationship
  • Romanian: da papucii — to end a relationship
  • Russian: бросать (brosatʹ) — to end a relationship
  • Russian: бросить (brositʹ) — to end a relationship
  • Spanish: dejar — to end a relationship
  • Spanish: planchar — to end a relationship
  • Spanish: plantar — to end a relationship
  • Swedish: lämna — to end a relationship
  • Swedish: dumpa — to end a relationship
  • Swedish: fimpa — to end a relationship
  • Finnish: jyskyttää — to knock heavily
  • German: anklopfen — to knock heavily
  • Finnish: kipata — to unload from a cart by tilting it
  • Finnish: sataa kaatamalla — to precipitate heavily
  • Finnish: pyryttää — to precipitate heavily