Dump Waste Dʌmp Rubbish Place Noun Bre Garbage

• a rubbish dump
• a garbage dump
• the municipal dump
• a toxic/nuclear waste dump

dump

1. a place where waste or rubbish/garbage is taken and left
• a rubbish dump
• a garbage dump
• the municipal dump
• a toxic/nuclear waste dump
2. a hill that is formed when waste sand from the production of gold is piled in one place over a period of time
3. a dirty or unpleasant place
• How can you live in this dump?
4. a temporary store for military supplies
• an ammunition dump
5. an act of copying data stored in a computer; a copy or list of the contents of this data
• see also screen dump
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/screen-dump
6. an act of passing waste matter from the body through the bowels
• to have a dump

Extra Examples

• Radioactive waste has been found at the dump.
• They took the mattress to the dump.
• a new dump for nuclear waste
• cleaning up a toxic waste dump
• taking rubbish to the dump

Word Origin

• Middle English: perhaps from Old Norse; related to Danish dumpe and Norwegian dumpa ‘fall suddenly’ (the original sense in English); in later use partly imitative; compare with thump.