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dumps
[ duhmps ]
noun
- a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the ):
to be in the dumps over money problems.
dumps
/ »åÊŒ³¾±è²õ /
plural noun
- informal.a state of melancholy or depression (esp in the phrase down in the dumps )
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of dumps1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of dumps1
Idioms and Phrases
see down in the dumps .Example Sentences
Federal officials counter that the debris can be disposed safely at the local landfills, and that trucking it to far away hazardous waste dumps would require longer truck trips that would delay the cleanup.
Sites that attract birds, like rubbish dumps, must also be moved away from airports.
Atacms and Storm Shadow missiles may have been used to powerful, even devastating, effect on distant command posts and ammunition dumps, but such successes seem remote to soldiers on the front lines.
Before it could react with the most powerful weapons Iran had provided, Israel killed Nasrallah and most of his key lieutenants, accompanied by massive strikes that destroyed arms dumps.
“But I can tell you that there are no ammunition dumps or weapons caches in Baalbek.â€
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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