as in sadness
a state or spell of low spirits
I've been down in the dumps all week
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as in leaves
to end a usually intimate relationship with
all of her friends were surprised at how she just dumped him
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as in discards
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
dump the trash on the curb and go back inside
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Recent Examples of dumps
Thomas Biesheuvel, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2022
From there, some of the storm debris will be taken to municipal dumps and some will be trucked across the state to privately run landfills.
—Anna Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2022
Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
At the end of each week, the truck dumps the freezer’s contents at a waste-storage facility.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Plural noun
And the breakthrough has opportunities far beyond waste dumps – there are millions more tons still underground that haven’t been viable to mine.
—Thomas Biesheuvel, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2022
From there, some of the storm debris will be taken to municipal dumps and some will be trucked across the state to privately run landfills.
—Anna Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2022
Verb
Wednesday-as-Enid dumps Bruno for being a cheating loser; Enid-as-Wednesday realizes that Wednesday’s bad behavior has come from a place of loyalty and love.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
At the end of each week, the truck dumps the freezer’s contents at a waste-storage facility.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumps
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The funding pause leaves many new homeowners in high-flood risk areas scrambling for protection and could halt the processing of current damage claims.—
Tamia Fowlkes,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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That leaves Wednesday’s release of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting as the main economic report to watch in the coming week as the central bank is self-funded and unaffected by the shutdown.—
Danny Bakst,
Fortune,
6 Oct. 2025
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Non-reusable textiles (otherwise known as NRTs) are of particular interest, underscored by ACT UK’s report that the region discards 740,000 metric tons of NRT every year.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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Marysol and Alexia take Julia, Lisa, and an unusually dour Adriana, who is moping about her birthday and how society discards women of a certain age.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Dion, with her blond bombshell waves, ditches her microphone for the glass potion bottle, holding it firmly to the sky.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
1 Oct. 2025
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Dual Front mode Rainbow Six Siege ditches turn-taking to let players attack and defend simultaneously.—
Griff Griffin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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Cars pull into the courtyard; someone unloads a television from the back of one of them.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Oct. 2025
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The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Dumps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumps. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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