dump

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of DUMP

to end a usually intimate relationship with <all of her friends were telling her to dump the jerk already>

Synonyms blow off, break off (with), dump, jilt, kiss off, leave

Related Words brush (aside or off), cold-shoulder, cut, high-hat, slight, snub; abandon, desert, forsake, maroon, quit

Near Antonyms hook up (with), take; befriend, latch (on or onto)

to get rid of as useless or unwanted <dump the trash on the curb and go back inside>

Synonyms cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, ditch, dump, eighty-six (or 86), exorcise (also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough (off) also sluff (off), throw away, throw out, toss, unload

Related Words abandon, abdicate, desert, forsake; dismiss, kick out; abolish, annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, remove, root (out), stamp (out), wipe out

Near Antonyms adopt, embrace, take on; employ, use, utilize; hold, hold back, keep, retain

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