dumps

Meaning of dumps

plural noun
  1. a site for depositing rubbish.
  2. an unpleasant or dreary place.
    why are you living in a dump like this?
  3. an act of copying stored data to a different location, performed typically as a protection against loss.
  4. an act of defecation.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. deposit or dispose of (rubbish, waste, or unwanted material), typically in a careless or hurried way.
    trucks dumped 1,900 tons of refuse here
  2. copy (stored data) to a different location, especially so as to protect against loss.

Middle English: perhaps from Old Norse; related to Danish dumpe and Norwegian dumpa ‘fall suddenly’ (the original sense in English); in later use partly imitative; compare with thump.

Information about dumps

  • The singular form of dumps is: dump.
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Hyphenation of dumps

dumps

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • dumps is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dumps synonyms

Meaning mopes:

mopes

Meaning a heap of waste or discarded material:

dustheap

Meaning a dunghill or refuse heap:

midden

Meaning a heap of dung or refuse, especially in a farmyard:

dunghill

Meaning a place where scrap is collected before being recycled or discarded:

scrapyard

Meaning the pointed or rounded end or extremity of something slender or tapering:

tip

Meaning a place where scrap is collected before being recycled or discarded; a scrapyard:

junkyard

Meaning an open shed or outhouse, used for sheltering cattle or storing grain or tools:

hovel

Meaning a roughly built hut or cabin:

shack

Meaning a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people:

slum

Meaning a small, crudely built shack:

shanty

Meaning a dirty or untidy state of things or of a place:

mess

Meaning an unpleasant place:

hole

Meaning a pen or enclosure for a pig or pigs:

pigsty

Meaning get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable:

discard

Meaning discard or remove from service (a redundant, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal:

scrap

Meaning throw (something) away by putting it in a bin:

bin

Meaning throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship:

jettison

Meaning provide with a ditch or ditches:

ditch

Meaning discard or abandon unceremoniously:

junk

Meaning damage or destroy:

trash

Anagrams of dumps

sdump

Words that rhyme with dumps

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