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dump Verb 1. to drop or let fall in a careless manner: he dumped the books on the bed 2. Informal to abandon (someone or something) without proper care: the unwanted babies were dumped in orphanages 3. to dispose of (nuclear waste) 4. Commerce to sell (goods) in bulk and at low prices, usually in another country, in order to keep prices high in the home market 5. Computers to record (the contents of the memory) on a storage device at a series of points during a computer run Noun 1. a place where rubbish is left 2. Informal a dirty, unattractive place: you're hardly in this dump out of choice 3. Mil a place where weapons or supplies are stored [probably from Old Norse] Dump a pile or heap of rubbish, 1871. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
dump verb 2. get rid of, tip, discharge, dispose of, unload, jettison, empty out, coup Scot. throw away or out verb 3. scrap, axe (informal) get rid of, abolish, junk (informal) put an end to, discontinue, jettison, put paid to A temporary storage area, usually in the open, for bombs, ammunition, equipment, or supplies. Translations (col) → tugurio; (MIL) → depósito; (COMPUT) → copia vaciada vt (= put down) → dejar (= get rid of); deshacerse de; (COMPUT) → vaciar; (also: rubbish dump) → décharge (publique); (Mil) → dépôt m; (Comput) → listage m (de la mémoire); (inf) (= place); trou m (Comput) → lister; (inf) (place) → Müllkippe f; (Mil) → Depot nt (get rid of) → abladen; (car) → abstellen; (Comput) (data) → ausgeben; to be down in the dumps (inf) → deprimiert or down sein; "no dumping" → "Schuttabladen verboten" (MIL) → deposito; (COMPUT) → scaricamento, dump m inv (COMM) [+ goods]; svendere; (COMPUT) → scaricare; |
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At least I am, and nearly twenty years had elapsed, and here was I burdened under a load of affection, like a sack of returned love-letters, with no lap into which to dump them. He was so fastidious and prim about his place that a boy would go to a good deal of trouble to throw a dead cat into his back yard, or to dump a sackful of tin cans in his alley. Up these little crooked streets they will murder a man for seven dollars and dump the body in the Seine. |
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