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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“dumped” is a form of

dump

/dʌmp/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms dumps dumping dumped

  1. noun A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site. “a toxic waste dump”
  2. noun A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  3. noun That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
  4. noun (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
  5. noun (computing) An act of dumping, or its result. “The new XML dump is coming soon.”
  6. noun (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
  7. noun A storage place for supplies, especially military. “an ammo dump”
  8. noun (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place. “This place looks like a dump.”
  9. verb (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
  10. verb (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
  11. verb (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
  12. verb (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
  13. verb (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
  14. verb (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with. “Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.”
  15. verb (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To knock heavily; to stump.
  16. verb (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it “We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.”
  17. noun (UK, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
  18. noun (UK, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
  19. noun (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
  20. proper noun A city in Toledo District, Belize.

Synonyms

chuck heave bung cast chunk cook dash feck fling jerk hield hoy huck hurl hurtle launch lob peck peg pick shit garbage dump trash dump rubbish dump wasteyard waste-yard dumpsite ditch underprice plunge

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.

See dumpling.

Cognate with Scots dump (“hole in the ground”), Norwegian dump (“a depression or hole in the ground”), German Low German dumpen (“to submerge”), Dutch dompen (“to dip, sink, submerge”).

From dump, as a pun on Trump.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] Smart.
  2. noun A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; --now used only in the plural.
  3. noun Absence of mind; revery. Locke.
  4. verb To knock heavily; to stump. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Etymology [See Dumpling.]

Etymology [Cf. dial. Sw. dumpin melancholy, Dan.dump dull, low, D. dompig damp, G. dumpf damp, dull, gloomy, and E. damp, or rather perh. dump, v. t. Cf. Damp, or Dump, v. t.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “dump”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details