dump
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1.1
- noun
- /dʌmp/
- Hey, Luigi, this new road makes your place look like a dump.
- waste dump
- garbage dump
- toxic waste dump
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Watch on YouTubeNow, you were at the dump in the last series, correct?
- Now, you were at the dump in the last series, correct?
- I drove to the dump and tried to smell it and I couldn't.
- I mean in it, it's a dump, OK, It's a dump truck.
Examples
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What are you doing in this dump?
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This place smells like the city dump.
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This is going in the dump in the dump.
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Now, you were at the dump in the last series, correct?
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This place is a dump.
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Get me out of this dump!
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How'd a nice girl like you wind up working in a dump like this?
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From there it's exactly eight-tenths of a mile... to the dump beside the tracks.
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Ashes produced by the beer brewing are left by Kasinja at a dump outside the village.
Academic text (1993) -
The city plans to close the old dump and build a new recycling center in its place.
Synonyms
13
1.0
A place where people take and leave large amounts of waste
8
4.0
A place where people throw away unwanted things, often illegally
6
2.4
A pile of garbage and old things people throw away
3
4.5
A piece of land where people throw away trash without control
3
2.1
A place where people put waste to be taken away
2
2.7
A messy heap of old things that people throw away
2
4.2
A messy pile of old broken things people throw away
2
2.3
A large pile of things that people have thrown away
2
1.3
A heap of thrown away things like paper and bottles
1
2.0
A large open area where people leave trash
1
2.7
A pile of waste and old things
1
5.4
A pile of old broken metal and other things kept to be thrown away
1
4.5
A pile of rubbish left outside in one place
A piece of land where people dump waste from homes and factories
Antonyms
Compounds
- Jargon
1
9.5
A plan that uses false news to raise a stock price and sell shares, leaving other investors with losses
- Specialized
1
7.7
A file that shows what is in a computer's memory when a program crashes to help find errors
How Dirty
- Specialized
2
4.4
- Specialized
1
3.5
223
1.1
- UK
1
2.7
- US
11
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dump comes from an old German word dumpen that meant 'to fall' or 'to drop'. Think of a place where people 'drop' unwanted things, which is why a dump is a site for rubbish.