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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
Lastly, My Roommate Is a Cat is the touching story of how a shy novelist named Mikazuki Subaru comes to live with a feline companion who was dumped by humans and lived a tough life on the streets.
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Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
Triggered by a strong earthquake that dumped 40 million tons of rock into the bay at once, the tsunami killed five people and wiped away two square miles of forest along the shore.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Much of it is dumped in landfills, leaching toxic chemicals into the environment.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Her body had been dumped in a ditch, her mother said in a Facebook comment.
—Mike Stunson, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
The Post had previously encouraged Cuomo to drop out in favor of Adams before the mayor, weakened by scandal, dumped his reelection bid.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
As has been the case since the programs dumped its lottery format and increase the allocation to $300 million in 2014, the credits are broken up under various categories, with relocating series a big bragging point.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
At the start of September, after his party lost a local election in Buenos Aires province, traders dumped the peso, which the government had pegged to the dollar to restrain inflation.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
These chemicals also threaten the water supply when products containing them are dumped onto the ground or into lakes and rivers.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
Triggered by a strong earthquake that dumped 40 million tons of rock into the bay at once, the tsunami killed five people and wiped away two square miles of forest along the shore.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Much of it is dumped in landfills, leaching toxic chemicals into the environment.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Her body had been dumped in a ditch, her mother said in a Facebook comment.
—Mike Stunson, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
The Post had previously encouraged Cuomo to drop out in favor of Adams before the mayor, weakened by scandal, dumped his reelection bid.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
As has been the case since the programs dumped its lottery format and increase the allocation to $300 million in 2014, the credits are broken up under various categories, with relocating series a big bragging point.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
At the start of September, after his party lost a local election in Buenos Aires province, traders dumped the peso, which the government had pegged to the dollar to restrain inflation.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
These chemicals also threaten the water supply when products containing them are dumped onto the ground or into lakes and rivers.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumped
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By 1974, though, many women had already discarded those notions as instruments of domination, psychic equivalents of the whalebone corset.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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After the executions, the bodies were discarded without ceremony.—
James Frater,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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As Colley noted, Harry is technically in line for the throne of Canada, but nonetheless ditched his Commonwealth allegiances for the Dodgers.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
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Bo Nix ditched his uneven past, and the defense showed elasticity but refused to snap.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
27 Oct. 2025
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This comes after the billionaire has unloaded more than 100 million shares in the past year alone.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
21 Oct. 2025
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In some cases, aircraft crews unloaded aid in near-darkness, refueled and immediately switched to evacuation runs.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The Milwaukee Bucks have lost one game this season.—
Eric Nehm,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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At least 19 people have lost their lives in Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa, which battered the island this week as the most powerful storm to ever hit the Caribbean nation.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Dumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumped. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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