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Dumps

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

noun-plural. A gloomy, melancholy state of mind; depression. Often used with the: felt down in the dumps.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Plural form of dump.

v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dump.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

noun-plural. a gloomy mental state; same as 2nd dump{1}; -- used mostly in the phrase “in the dumps”.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an informal expression for a mildly depressed state

Word Usage

"These figures become even more significant when it is realised that these dumps have surprisingly low recovery rates because the microbiological component of sulphide leaching was not realised at the time of the dumps construction."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

low spirits

Variant

dump{1}

Verb Stem

dump

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

bumps clumps jumps lumps mumps pumps slumps stumps thumps trumps