dump
Where garbage goes
Dump is most frequently a verb about getting rid of things, often in a way that shows no affection for them.
If you dump a boyfriend or girlfriend, you end the relationship summarily.
If you dump your possessions somewhere, you drop them carelessly.
Someone may dump a lot of trash by the side of the road.
It would be more desirable, however, if they took it to the dump, informal for a landfill.
To take a dump is an informal and somewhat vulgar expression for emptying your bowels.
Discarded waste material
- wasteUnwanted discarded material
- refuseReject or garbage
- rubbishWaste or nonsense
- trashDiscarded worthless material
disposal · recycling · sanitation · tip · site · leachate · methane · compactor
Light, casual throw
- throwPropel by arm motion
- disposeArrange or settle
- ditchShallow excavated channel
- chuckThrow carelessly or informally
jettison · unload · abandon · scrap · shed · drop · fling · purge
Remove forcibly from membership
- dischargeRelease of substance outward
- spewEject with force
- pourSend liquid streaming out
- emptyHolding nothing inside
release · spill · offload · tip · unload · deposit · scatter · heap
Stored duplicate for recovery
- exportForeign-bound sale
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- databaseOrganized digital information collection
- fileStored collection of data
crash · core · hex · log · output · extract · snapshot · raw
Rapid downward descent
- crashSudden violent impact
- plungeSudden steep descent
- slumpExtended period of decline
- nosediveSudden steep descent
freefall · decline · drop · tank · crater · tumble · slide · depreciate
garbage
Discarded waste material
trash · disposal · recycling · sanitation · tip · site · leachate · methane · compactor · bulldozer
toss
Light, casual throw
chuck · jettison · unload · abandon · scrap · shed · drop · fling · purge · declutter
expel
Remove forcibly from membership
empty · release · spill · offload · tip · unload · deposit · scatter · heap · pile
backup
Stored duplicate for recovery
- exportForeign-bound sale
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- databaseOrganized digital information collection
file · crash · core · hex · log · output · extract · snapshot · raw · binary
plummet
Rapid downward descent
nosedive · freefall · decline · drop · tank · crater · tumble · slide · depreciate · downturn
down
Toward lower ground
rut · doldrums · low · gloom · despair · misery · mope · sulk · heartbreak · rejection
depot
Vehicle storage facility
storage · arsenal · munitions · ammo · military · weapons · supplies · coal · ore · materials
- waste managementwaste, trash, garbage, rubbish, refuse
- abandonmentabandon, abandoned, forsake, desert, leave
- getting rid ofunload, disposal, shed, offloading, jettison
- removalremove, elimination, delete, erasing, erase
- rubbishtrash, garbage, junk, litter, refuse
- wastetrash, garbage, rubbish, refuse, debris
- dump truckHinged-bed hauling vehicle
- illegal dumpingUnlawful waste disposal
- down in the dumpsSad and dispirited
- in the dumpsFeeling sad, dispirited
- garbage dumpWaste collection site
- dumpster fireHopelessly botched situation
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