dumpverb [ T ]
uk/dʌmp/us/dʌmp/dump verb [ T ] (PUT DOWN)
C2 to put down or drop something in a careless way:
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- She had been strangled with her own scarf and her body dumped in the woods.
- His body had been dumped in an area of waste land just outside the city.
- He opposes any kind of nuclear waste being dumped at sea.
- The car was dumped in a stretch of wasteland in the south of the city.
- 90 percent of American rubbish is dumped in landfill sites.
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw sth away/out
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- weed
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dump verb [ T ] (GET RID OF)
C1 to get rid of something unwanted, especially by leaving it in a place where it is not allowed to be:
to sell unwanted goods very cheaply, usually in other countries:
specialized computing to move information from a computer's memory to another place or device
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw sth away/out
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- weed
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dump verb [ T ] (END RELATIONSHIP)
C2 informal to suddenly end a romantic relationship you have been having with someone:
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Relationships: ending & divorce
- a parting of the ways idiom
- affiliation order
- annul
- break up
- break-up
- child support
- give sb the elbow idiom
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- give sb the push idiom
- go off with sb
- grow
- grow apart
- push
- split
- split up
- split up
- throw
- throw sb over
- tug of love
- visitation
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dumpnoun [ C ]
uk/dʌmp/us/dʌmp/C1 UK also rubbish dump, US also garbage dump a place where people are allowed to leave their rubbish:
C2 informal a very unpleasant and unattractive place:
a place where things of a particular type are stored, especially by an army:
specialized computing an act of moving information from a computer's memory to another place or device
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Rubbish and waste
- debris
- detritus
- dross
- effluent
- flotsam
- jetsam
- jumble
- kitsch
- litter
- recycle
- refuse
- rubbish
- rubble
- scrap
- scrap heap
- spoil
- tat
- upcycle
- upcycling
- waste product
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