# dump

> English word · Noun · IPA /dʌmp/ · frequency rank #6,233

## Definitions
1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
4. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
5. An act of dumping, or its result.
6. A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
7. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
8. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
9. An act of defecation; a defecating.
10. A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
11. Absence of mind; reverie.
12. A pile of ore or rock.
13. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
14. An old kind of dance.
15. A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
16. A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.

## Etymology
From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.

## Easily confused with
- **duo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-duo)
- **dun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dun)
- **dup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dup)
- **dur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dur)
- **DWP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dwp)
- **duty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-duty)
- **dust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dust)
- **Dunn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dunn)
- **dunk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dunk)
- **dusk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dusk)
- **dune** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dune)
- **dung** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dung)
- **dupe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dupe)
- **dura** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dura)
- **dumps** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dumps)
- **dumped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dump-vs-dumped)
- **DM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dm-vs-dump)
- **DP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dp-vs-dump)
- **due** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/due-vs-dump)
- **dam** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dam-vs-dump)

## Common misspellings (6)
`ddump`, `dmup`, `dummp`, `dumpp`, `dupm`, `udmp`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/dump