Word Definition

Dump

  1. A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
  2. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
  3. That which is dumped.
  4. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  5. A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
  6. A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
  7. To knock heavily; to stump.
  8. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.
  9. Absence of mind; revery.
  10. An old kind of dance.
  11. A pile of ore or rock.