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dump verb1. ME.
[Perh. from Old Norse; cf. Danish dumpe, Norwegian dumpa fall suddenly, fall plump. In mod. use partly imit: cf. THUMP verb.]
verb intrans. & trans. Fall or drop with sudden force; plunge. Only in ME.
verb trans. Strike heavily, thump. Scot. L16.
verb trans. Throw down in a lump; deposit unceremoniously; tip out (rubbish etc.); drop, esp. with a bump. Orig. US. L18.
J. B. Priestley Oakroyd's reply..was to fetch his bag of tools and dump it down at the other's feet. A. Toffler Industrial waste dumped into a river can turn up..thousands of miles away in the ocean. fig.: E. Reveley He..decided to dump the whole thing..into the laps of his superiors.
b. Put (goods) on the market in large quantities and at low prices; spec. send (goods unsaleable at high price in the home market) to a foreign market for sale at a lower price. M19.
P. Carey There was a surfeit and..talk of dumping grain on the world market.
c. Discard; abandon; get rid of. colloq. E20.
D. Stivens You've dumped plenty of fellows before.
d. verb trans. & intrans. Void (as) excrement, defecate. Chiefly N. Amer. E20.
dumping syndrome Medicine a group of symptoms, including abdominal discomfort and distension and sometimes abnormally rapid bowel evacuation, occurring after meals in some patients who have undergone gastric surgery. dump on colloq. criticize severely, treat with scorn or contempt, defeat heavily.
e. Of a wave: hurl (a swimmer or surfer) down with great force. Chiefly Austral. M20.
f. Computing. Copy (stored data) to a different location (esp. an external storage medium); list (stored data). M20.
verb trans. Compress (a wool bale) (as) by hydraulic pressure. Austral. & NZ. M19.