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dumps

[ duhmps ]

noun

  1. a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the ):

    to be in the dumps over money problems.



dumps

/ dʌmps /

plural noun

  1. informal.
    a state of melancholy or depression (esp in the phrase down in the dumps )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dumps1

1515–25; compare German dumpf dull, Middle Dutch domp haze
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dumps1

C16: probably from Middle Dutch domp haze, mist; see damp
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Idioms and Phrases

see down in the dumps .
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Example Sentences

Beat the Blahs What causes this wintertime down-in-the-dumps attitude?

In the books, Cersei gets very down in the dumps, starts putting on weight, and hits the bottle hard.

Local newspapers carried accounts of starving Negroes swarming over garbage dumps, even eating the clay from the river bluffs.

Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal dumps on Barack Obama right on the White House lawn.

Just when spirits are lowest, sometimes, we look to sky and see giant flock of dumps soaring together overhead.

If she could laugh like that, he need not stay in the dumps.

If he couldn't get what he wanted at the Morrises', he went out and stole, or visited the dumps at the back of the town.

Dumps were made at frequent intervals along the front containing all the materials required for consolidation.

The men are splendid—their cheeriness comes up bubbling whenever the occasion calls for the dumps.

Again the atmosphere of dignified dumps and dingy sulkiness.

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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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