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dump
  1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
  2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
  4. (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
  5. (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program
  6. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
  7. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, or unfashionable, boring or depressing looking place.
  8. (vulgar, slang, often with the verb "take") An act of defecation; a defecating.
  9. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor (usually plural).
  10. Absence of mind; revery.
  11. (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
  12. (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
  13. (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
  14. (historical, Australia) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
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  16. Examples:
    1. “The first desks she and her students used were packing crates that had been discarded at the local dump.”
      “Here we were living in a dump with no money, and Pop was too old to work.”
      “Soran was working late the night before with all the other men trying to get the fire at the ammunition dump under control.”
dumpage
  1. The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter.
  2. A heap of dumped matter.
  3. A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads.
dumpling
  1. (cooking) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. [from 17th c.]
  2. (familiar) A term of endearment.
  3. (mildly vulgar) A piece of excrement.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Do you sometimes long for a taste of your mom's beef dumpling or a forkful of warm wild blueberry pie in a flaky crust?”
      “The only two dumpling experiments I conducted in the past were ricotta gnocchi and spaetzle, those Alsacian egg pasta.”
      “It was cooked slowly on the fire, and then Dad made a suet dumpling the size of the pan, and we really gorged ourselves.”
dumping
  1. The disposal of something no longer needed, or of no value.
  2. Selling goods at less than their normal price, especially in the export market as a means of securing a monopoly.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The dumping of old furniture in the alley behind the apartment complex was a common occurrence.”
dump
  1. (Britain, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
  2. (Britain, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The first desks she and her students used were packing crates that had been discarded at the local dump.”
      “Here we were living in a dump with no money, and Pop was too old to work.”
      “Soran was working late the night before with all the other men trying to get the fire at the ammunition dump under control.”
dumpsite
  1. A dump for garbage, usually a dump that is actively in use; or the location of such a dump
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The stations studio is situated on the dumpsite close to the homes of the participating children.”
      “For a long time, the St. Lawrence and its tributaries were considered a convenient and inexpensive dumpsite for wastewater.”
      “The dumpsite has replaced the notorious Smokey Mountain, once synonymous with poverty in the Philippines.”
dumpee
  1. (informal) One who is dumped (rejected romantically).
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Have you dumped everyone you've ever been with? You've never been the dumpee?”
      “Ben recently denied all but the earrings to the New York Post, but if you were acting like a desperate, obsessed dumpee, wouldn't you?”
      “For instance, I imagine that almost every one of the women nominating old flames is the dumper rather than the dumpee.”
dumpy
  1. (South Africa) A small bottle of beer.
dumpiness
  1. The quality of being dumpy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I imagine her to be short and squat, but pretty feminine in a sickly flowery way despite her dumpiness.”
      “She entered the courtroom, her black robes swinging loosely from her shoulders, not concealing her dumpiness, her white hair cut in a simple bob.”
      “Of course, it was invariably a dump — and its dumpiness was in inverse relation to the glittering fantasies of its hopeful young inhabitants.”
dumplings
  1. plural of dumpling
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  3. Examples:
    1. “One of the most mouth-watering of their creations is the oily chili sauce that covers the joint's bite-sized dumplings.”
      “The latter, sometimes called Manchurian wild rice or water grass, has broader leaves, which are used for wrapping dumplings.”
      “Two special dishes of Tobago are curry crab and dumplings and accra, which is seasoned salt fish pounded and shaped into small cakes and fried.”
dumpsites
dumpages
  1. plural of dumpage
dumpings
dumpees
  1. plural of dumpee
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dumpies
  1. plural of dumpy
dumps
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