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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Dump  \Dump\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Dumped};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Dumping}.]  [OE.  dumpen  to  throw  down  fall  down  cf  Icel. 
  dumpa  to  thump,  Dan.  dumpe  to  fall  suddenly,  rush,  dial.  Sw 
  dimpa  to  fall  down  plump.  Cf  {Dump}  sadness.] 
  1.  To  knock  heavily;  to  stump.  [Prov.  Eng.]  --Halliwell. 
 
  2.  To  put  or  throw  down  with  more  or  less  of  violence;  hence 
  to  unload  from  a  cart  by  tilting  it  as  to  dump  sand, 
  coal,  etc  [U.S.]  --Bartlett. 
 
  {Dumping  car}  or  {cart},  a  railway  car  or  a  cart,  the  body 
  of  which  can  be  tilted  to  empty  the  contents;  --  called 
  also  {dump  car},  or  {dump  cart}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  dumped 
  adj  :  that  is  dropped  in  a  heap;  "his  hastily  dumped  clothes"; 
  "the  money  was  there  dumped  all  over  the  floor" 




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