1
as in left
to end a usually intimate relationship with
all of her friends were surprised at how she just dumped him
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as in discarded
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
dump the trash on the curb and go back inside
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Recent Examples of dumped
Thanksgiving weekend in 1950 was marked by a wintry storm that dumped a deadly amount of snow across the Appalachian region.
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Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 25 Jan. 2026
Rhodes dumped Fatu out of the ring with a clothesline followed by a suicide dive.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
Artificial intelligence is also being used to pore over 20 years worth of records, Kesse said, and could be used to get better images from the surveillance footage of the individual who dumped her car.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
The victim's boyfriend later dumped the body in Leakin Park, according to police.
—Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
Investors dumped bonds amid nerves about how the government would pay for its spending plans alongside new tax cuts.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
Fearing Quatisha could identify him, Braddy dumped the child — alive — on the side of Alligator Alley.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
On June 15, the Red Sox dumped Devers and the remainder of his contract on the San Francisco Giants.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 11 Jan. 2026
January used to be the time of year in which studios dumped their unloved dregs in theaters.
—David Faris, TheWeek, 9 Jan. 2026
Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 25 Jan. 2026
Rhodes dumped Fatu out of the ring with a clothesline followed by a suicide dive.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
Artificial intelligence is also being used to pore over 20 years worth of records, Kesse said, and could be used to get better images from the surveillance footage of the individual who dumped her car.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
The victim's boyfriend later dumped the body in Leakin Park, according to police.
—Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
Investors dumped bonds amid nerves about how the government would pay for its spending plans alongside new tax cuts.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
Fearing Quatisha could identify him, Braddy dumped the child — alive — on the side of Alligator Alley.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
On June 15, the Red Sox dumped Devers and the remainder of his contract on the San Francisco Giants.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 11 Jan. 2026
January used to be the time of year in which studios dumped their unloved dregs in theaters.
—David Faris, TheWeek, 9 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumped
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In 2019, discarded e-waste globally was valued at more than $57 billion.—
Kristen Edgreen Kaufman,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Short’s personality and complexity, attributes long discarded as her life became bastardized, stand in stark contrast to the inhumanity of her death.—
Nathan Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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First, Cameron Diaz ditched stilettos for ballet flats, and now Carrie Underwood just showed off another comfy (yet totally polished) alternative.—
Nicol Natale,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 2026
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Margot Robbie has ditched the hot pink Barbie Land in favor of the windswept moors of Wuthering Heights, and her hair has too!—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
27 Jan. 2026
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Walz still doesn’t know the names of the agents who unloaded their firearms into Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse.—
Isaac Stanley-Becker,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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As dozens of people lined the docks to watch, volunteers and biologists carefully unloaded the large mammals from the back of a SeaWorld box truck onto the boat ramp.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2026
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The head of a medical watchdog group unleashed on Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) after a nurse at the school's hospital lost her job over TikTok videos that went viral for all the wrong reasons.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The Italians fought and lost to Robert Moses’s wrecking whims; Puerto Ricans who could fled to Jersey for the privilege of a backyard.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Dumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumped. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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