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as in left
to end a usually intimate relationship with
all of her friends were surprised at how she just dumped him
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as in discarded
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
dump the trash on the curb and go back inside
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Recent Examples of dumped
Water testing has been temporarily increased to once a month at the Oceanside Harbor after someone reported seeing a suspicious liquid dumped from a boat.
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
The Level 5 accident dumped radioactive contamination across Europe and it is thought that traces of isotope iodine-131 may have caused several hundred cancer diagnoses.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
Horner dumped her naked body in the water along the Trinity River, stopped at a truck stop to clean the vehicle, and then continued on to the FedEx station to drop off the truck for the night.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2026
In Park Heights, crews found items dumped in the woods behind a business.
—Tara Lynch, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
Next to it was one of the vast open spaces where the city of Ottawa carted and dumped the snow removed from city streets—a vast mountain range of gray-white that survived into the heat of early summer.
—Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
After his disappearance, Wilkerson’s body was found dumped in the woods, severely beaten and burned.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
The Norwegian director balanced horror, humor and action with more panache in the films that put him on the map, Dead Snow and its sequel, which dumped Nazi zombies in mountain woodlands.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
Last weekend, they were stunned at second-tier Southampton and dumped out of the FA Cup at the quarterfinal stage.
—Jackie Powell, NBC news, 10 Apr. 2026
Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
The Level 5 accident dumped radioactive contamination across Europe and it is thought that traces of isotope iodine-131 may have caused several hundred cancer diagnoses.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
Horner dumped her naked body in the water along the Trinity River, stopped at a truck stop to clean the vehicle, and then continued on to the FedEx station to drop off the truck for the night.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2026
In Park Heights, crews found items dumped in the woods behind a business.
—Tara Lynch, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
Next to it was one of the vast open spaces where the city of Ottawa carted and dumped the snow removed from city streets—a vast mountain range of gray-white that survived into the heat of early summer.
—Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
After his disappearance, Wilkerson’s body was found dumped in the woods, severely beaten and burned.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
The Norwegian director balanced horror, humor and action with more panache in the films that put him on the map, Dead Snow and its sequel, which dumped Nazi zombies in mountain woodlands.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
Last weekend, they were stunned at second-tier Southampton and dumped out of the FA Cup at the quarterfinal stage.
—Jackie Powell, NBC news, 10 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumped
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The deer could be contaminated with CWD, and if discarded incorrectly, can spread the disease.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
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The first-stage booster that had been tapped during the original attempts was discarded for a new booster.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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Kerss is a master at breaking the complicated information down into manageable bites for those of us who ditched science after high school.—
Heather Greenwood Davis,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Apr. 2026
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Vertebrates ditched their body armor and scales for smooth skin; cephalopods lost their external shell.—
Kate Wong,
Scientific American,
23 Apr. 2026
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Policy for transporting firearms Amtrak requires firearms on its trains to be declared, unloaded, secured in a hard case and to meet certain size and weight requirements.—
Claudia Lauer,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Jerusalem — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Israel of knowingly allowing grain stolen by Russia to be unloaded at Israeli ports, threatening to impose sanctions on anyone involved in the shipments, which Kyiv says have continued despite multiple appeals to Israeli officials.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2026
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Sad memories of last year — when Wooten lost a tiebreaker in her state championship singles match to hand Palmetto the title — are all but erased.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026
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The Thompsons lost their mother to a heart attack in January 2023, according to TMZ.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Dumped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumped. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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