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dumps
plural nounSynonyms & Antonyms of dumps
(Entry 1 of 2)
- I've been down in the dumps all week
Synonyms for dumps
- blue devils,
- blues,
- dejection,
- depression,
- desolation,
- despond,
- despondence,
- despondency,
- disconsolateness,
- dispiritedness,
- doldrums,
- dolefulness,
- downheartedness,
- dreariness,
- forlornness,
- gloom,
- gloominess,
- glumness,
- heartsickness,
- joylessness,
- melancholy,
- miserableness,
- mopes,
- mournfulness,
- oppression,
- sadness,
- sorrowfulness,
- unhappiness
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dumps
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of dumps (Entry 2 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
Synonyms for dumps
- cashiers,
- casts (off),
- chucks,
- deep-sixes,
- discards,
- ditches,
- eighty-sixes
- (or 86es),
- exorcises
- (also exorcizes),
- flings (off or away),
- jettisons,
- junks,
- lays by,
- loses,
- pitches,
- rejects,
- scraps,
- sheds,
- shucks (off),
- sloughs (off)
- also sluffs (off),
- throws away,
- throws out,
- tosses,
- unloads
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“Dumps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumps. Accessed 16 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of dumps was in 1529
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