dustheap
- noun
- /ˈdʌstˌhip/
:
montón de basura
- After cleaning the attic, we found a large dustheap of forgotten toys and old clothes.
Examples
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Marx predicted that workers would heave capitalism onto the dustheap of history.
Fiction book (1991) -
He got to the apex of the dustheap and remembered an advertising slogan he had seen once for a sleeping nostrum—
Fiction book (1992) -
Chucked on the dustheap along with all its inhabitants...
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It should be pulled down and chucked on the dustheap along with its inhabitants.
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In an authorizing rhetoric we might call invited excess, such works claim to transmute Dickensian dustheaps of data into the gold of knowledge and form.
Academic text (1997) -
Gregor himself, much desiccated and weakened but alive, has been carried out to the dustheap to ponder his metamorphosis.
Fiction book (1992) -
The construction site was left in disarray, with a dustheap of debris piling up in the corner.
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He cleared the dustheap of discarded papers from his desk to make space for new projects.
Synonyms
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2.1
A small pile of things put on top of each other
3
2.4
A pile of garbage and old things people throw away
3
4.2
A messy pile of old broken things people throw away
2
2.7
A messy heap of old things that people throw away
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1.3
A heap of thrown away things like paper and bottles
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2.3
A large pile of things that people have thrown away
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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
9.9
A very dirty, messy pile of trash and broken things
A pile of rubbish left outside in one place
A pile of ashes left after something has been burned
A pile of animal dung and farm waste behind a barn
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Etymology
The word dustheap combines dust and heap. Dust means 'small dry bits' and heap means 'pile', so a dustheap is a pile of dust, rubbish, or old things.