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/dˈəmpɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Dump v. t. (past & past part. dumped; pres. part. dumping)

To knock heavily; to stump. (Prov. Eng.)

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. (U.S.)

Dumping car or Dumping cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; called also dump car, or dump cart.

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Etymology of 'Dumping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dumping" Quotes from Famous Books

... Loo looked much ashamed as she made excuses, trying at the same time to mend matters by seizing Boo and dusting him all over with her handkerchief, giving a pull at his hair as if ringing bells, and then dumping him down again with the despairing exclamation: "Yes, we're a pair of heathens, and there's no one to ...

— Jack and Jill • Louisa May Alcott

... attractions included a Lovers' Leap, a Grotto, golf-links—a five-hole course where the enthusiast found unusual hazards in the shape of a number of goats tethered at intervals between the holes—and a silvery lake, only portions of which were used as a dumping-ground for tin cans and wooden boxes. It was all new and strange to Henry and caused him an odd exhilaration. Something of gaiety and reckless abandon began to creep into his veins. He had a curious feeling that in these romantic ...

— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... was hired. Hysterical laughter seized upon me as I beheld (in imagination) myself, the waggoner, and the Genius of Muskegon, standing in the public view of Paris, without the shadow of a destination; perhaps driving at last to the nearest rubbish-heap, and dumping there, among the ordures of a city, the beloved child of my invention. From these extremities I was relieved by a seasonable offer, and I parted from the Genius of Muskegon for thirty francs. Where she now stands, under ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... great lover of flowers, picked them and put them in his buttonhole. While he did this, his keen eyes were darting about the place taking in all the details. This vacant lot had evidently been used as an unlicensed dumping ground for some time, for all sorts of odds and ends, old boots, bits of stuff, silk and rags, broken bottles and empty tin cans, lay about between the bushes or half buried in the earth. What had once been an orderly garden was now an untidy receptacle for waste. The ...

— The Lamp That Went Out • Augusta Groner

... the hegemony of English in the political and intellectual life of America, but in a great country like America there is room for others also. It is a narrow view of our civilization to make "American" synonymous with English. America is not the dumping ground of the nations. It is a land where the best ideals of all nations may be reproduced and find room ...

— The Lutherans of New York - Their Story and Their Problems • George Wenner

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