dump

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a place where supplies can be stored

   an ammunition dump

2. 2
   verb

   drop (stuff) in a heap or mass

   The truck dumped the garbage in the street

3. 3
   verb

   sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly

   The company dumped them after many years of service.

4. 4
   verb

   throw away as refuse

   No dumping in these woods!

5. 5
   noun

   A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.

   a toxic waste dump

6. 6
   noun

   An act of dumping, or its result.

   The new XML dump is coming soon.

7. 7
   noun

   A storage place for supplies, especially military.

   an ammo dump

8. 8
   noun

   An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.

   This place looks like a dump.

Etymology

From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.