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
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2025
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
4 Apr. 2026
If a company dumps toxic waste into a local river and your children get sick and die, there is no value lost, there are no damages, no liability—the ultimate rationale for Milton Friedman’s externalization of costs.
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Andrew Behar,
Fortune,
1 Apr. 2026
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Plural noun
The production, directed by Simon Godwin from a version by David Eldridge, takes a while to find itself, perhaps because Ibsen dumps exposition into an unbearably clunky first scene or because the play doesn’t introduce its heart, Hedvig, for nearly half an hour.
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Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2025
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But that was due to an issue with the primary vent on Orion that dumps wastewater overboard, which may have built up ice around it.
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Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
4 Apr. 2026
If a company dumps toxic waste into a local river and your children get sick and die, there is no value lost, there are no damages, no liability—the ultimate rationale for Milton Friedman’s externalization of costs.
—
Andrew Behar,
Fortune,
1 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumps
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The set up leaves California vulnerable to the unpredictable nature of the stock market, dramatic swings in revenue and, in recent years, reliant on poor projections.
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Durica said the event that shaped the world leaves behind much more than a board game and a marvel of engineering.
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Try the Storm Chaser, which sends you into a zero-gravity fall, catches you in a funnel, then discards you into a pool below.
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At the same time, Gans discards the psychological and spatial logic that gave meaning to the original telling’s dream-like sense of disorientation.
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Meta ditches Ray-Ban and adds Kylie Jenner.
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Fulda all but ditches his ambitious partner Chaton (Vincent Dedienne), in order to team up with Stéphane to get to the bottom of the endless pig-slaughter, and to put paid to the local superstition that Brun’s ghost may be the culprit.
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Pickle Robot's system unloads boxes from trailers or containers.
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An oil tanker unloads crude oil at a terminal at the port in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on March 11, 2026.
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The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.
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And the company doing the genuine, expensive work of transition loses the one advantage the label was meant to confer, cheaper capital and patient shareholders who believe the plan.
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“Dumps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumps. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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