Antonyms for
dump
A place where waste or garbage is left
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All Definitions for Dump

Below are all the dictionary definitions of dump:

1A place where waste or garbage is left
2A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
3A disposal site.
4A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
5That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way
6A mess.
7A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
8An act of dumping, or its result.
9A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
10A storage place for supplies, especially military.
11An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
12An act of defecation
13A defecating.
14A sad, gloomy state of the mind
15Sadness
16Melancholy
17Despondency.
18Absence of mind
19Reverie.
20A pile of ore or rock.
21A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
22To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
23To discard
24To get rid of something one no longer wants.
25To sell below cost or very cheaply
26To engage in dumping.
27To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
28To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
29To end a romantic relationship with.
30To put or throw down with more or less of violence
31Hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
32To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
33Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
34A deep hole in a river bed
35A pool.
36A melancholy strain or tune in music
37Any tune.
38An old kind of dance.
39A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
40To knock heavily
41To stump.
42A thick, ill-shapen piece.
43A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
44A city in Toledo District, Belize.
45Donald Trump.

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