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(Entry 1 of 2)
- all of her friends were surprised at how she just dumped him
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- dump the trash on the curb and go back inside
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- cashier,
- cast (off),
- chuck,
- deep-six,
- discard,
- ditch,
- eighty-six
- (or 86),
- exorcise
- (also exorcize),
- fling (off or away),
- jettison,
- junk,
- lay by,
- lose,
- pitch,
- reject,
- scrap,
- shed,
- shuck (off),
- slough (off)
- also sluff (off),
- throw away,
- throw out,
- toss,
- unload
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dump
nounSynonyms of dump (Entry 2 of 2)
- all of the used packaging eventually ends up in the dump
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- landfill,
- sanitary landfill,
- tip
- [chiefly British]
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- a daring raid on the ammunition dump
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- his place is always a dump, so he almost never has people over
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The first known use of dump was in 1784
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