I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
brain dump
dump truck
dump waste
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They were fined for illegally dumping waste.
dumping ground
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Rivers have always been a dumping ground for man’s unwanted waste.
rubbish tip/dump (= a place to take rubbish )
screen dump
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
illegally
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Instead waste is being illegally dumped to avoid the tax.
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State and federal investigators believe the substance may have been illegally dumped or leaked into the water.
unceremoniously
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Nine hours after she'd been bundled into the room, they unceremoniously dumped Adam in with her.
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A long list of Silicon Valley companies were unceremoniously dumped from the Net for several hours Friday.
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If they are verbally aggressive to staff they will be dumped unceremoniously in this room.
■ NOUN
bag
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Gratefully Paige dumped her bag beside the fallen tree.
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When we park the shopping cart and dump our bag , they swoop down to investigate.
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You can barely dump your black bag in the bin before the rubbish regulars pounce.
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I decided I'd better dump my bags , literally, and make my presence known.
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That day Raybestos had succeeded in dumping some 100 bags of waste.
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I dumped my duffel bag by the wall and he called for Maria to bring the tea.
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The driver dumped the mail bag on the counter, lifting the sealed bag without speaking a word.
body
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You told them to dump the body in the bay, where it wouldn't be found for a while.
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Half the time he dump the body out and bring the casket back to sell it again.
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Then a wave of feebleness swamped me and dumped my body on the top step.
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C., dumped gasoline on the bodies and set them afire.
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They tortured and shot him, then dumped his body .
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The killers shot Mr Bates in the back of the head and then dumped his body .
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She appears only to male descendants of the family who slaughtered her own long ago, dumping their bodies in Lake Darmstadt.
car
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He has used the waste ground to dump old cars , which he intends to renovate.
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First thing to do is dump the car .
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The couple, who dumped the car and fled, were being hunted last night.
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He might make it back by four in the morning, once he'd dumped the car .
contents
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She dumps the contents on to the floor.
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Manion walked up to a student in the front row and dumped the contents of the puzzle box on her desk.
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In his haste the intruder had pulled out drawers and dumped their contents on the floor.
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The cops had him dump the contents .
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He was about to dump the contents of the porridge tin overboard when we remembered our hitch-hiking friend.
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They dumped the contents of a few suitcases on the ground, kicked them with their boots and stamped on them.
garbage
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A kitchen worker appeared, dumped two black garbage sacks, then disappeared.
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Whoever dumped that garbage out there.
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Some woman was just here saying you dumped that garbage .
landfill
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The rest is dumped in landfill sites.
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A further 42 percent is spread on farmland and 23 percent is dumped in landfills or piped out to sea.
material
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There have been some real instances of just dumping nuclear material in the oceans.
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The reclamation would involve dumping the dredged material on the estuary's Lappel bank.
rubbish
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They have dumped their rubbish on the cheap in the East for years.
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The farmer who lives at nearby Eastbach Farm has applied for permission to dump rubbish despite widespread opposition from the village.
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The back lanes in the North Road area have been atrocious, people were dumping their rubbish in them.
sea
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At present, anything excepting specifically blacklisted substances can be dumped at sea .
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The convention establishes the principle that nothing that is harmful to human health and marine life can be dumped at sea .
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Over six million tonnes of oil is dumped into the seas annually. 7.
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The existing blacklist of substances not to be dumped at sea would be superseded by the blanket ban.
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Police believe the two friends were attacked while sunbathing and raped and murdered before being dumped in the sea .
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Activists have caught vessels dumping nuclear waste at sea , but most no longer sail.
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Besides, dumping at sea is cheap, and so it fails to reflect the possible environmental costs imposed on future generations.
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The government is currently considering building facilities for processing liquid radioactive waste and other measures to end dumping at sea by 1995.
site
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It also applied for planning permission to dump at another site it owned at Barnahely, Ringaskiddy.
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Raybestos ruled out the possible compromise of a temporary permission to dump asbestos at the site .
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The rest is dumped in landfill sites .
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According to Greenpeace, 1,100 tons of munitions were dumped at the site in 1991 and 8,400 tons thus far this year.
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For every tonne of waste dumped in a landfill site , the Treasury demands £1 1.
street
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Then they are dumped on the street .
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Now, there is nothing a politician fears more than a 106-year-old granny who is dumped into the street .
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Actually, I can, given the stuff that dolts selfishly dump on the streets of my neighborhood.
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Silently, calmly, she picked up the cloth full of steaming pupusas and dumped them into the street .
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These kids are being dumped in the streets without jobs.
waste
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It was the Mirror too which exposed the massive government cover-up last year over the poisonous waste being dumped on our beaches.
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Find out what waste is being dumped near your home and campaign against it.
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Residents are concerned that toxic waste may be dumped .
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Instead waste is being illegally dumped to avoid the tax.
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In one city, contaminated waste was dumped next to a shopping centre.
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For every tonne of waste dumped in a landfill site, the Treasury demands £1 1.
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Solid wastes are either burnt or buried in landfill tips and fluid wastes are dumped in the sea.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Why did he dump her?" "He met somebody else."
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Hill had to drive six miles just to dump her garden waste.
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I dumped my heavy suitcase down on the doorstep.
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I mean he just used her emotionally and then dumped her.
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I think the guy's a jerk. I'm glad Debbie dumped him.
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People dump rubbish in the lanes, and the council is slow to clean it up.
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People who want to get rid of old cars sometimes dump them in the woods.
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Should I dump this coffee? It's cold.
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The half-burned bodies were dumped in mass graves.
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They were accused of dumping computer chips on the U.S. market.
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Toxic waste is being dumped into the ocean.
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Who dumped all these books on my desk?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A long list of Silicon Valley companies were unceremoniously dumped from the Net for several hours Friday.
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And if the market plunges, many Wall Street newcomers might dump stocks and mutual funds as quickly as they bought them.
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During the offseason they dumped Mike Gartner to Phoenix for a fourth-round pick, a fire-sale sort of deal.
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He gathered in the tarpaulin as a yachtsman might a spinnaker and dumped it behind him before peering into the semi-darkness.
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Q: Should I dump my laserdisc player?
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They agreed to observe the moratorium, and to resume dumping after 2007 only in consultation with other signatory states.
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You told them to dump the body in the bay, where it wouldn't be found for a while.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
nuclear
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Communities of fish and invertebrates are attracted to structures such as oil platforms and nuclear waste dumps .
toxic
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The programme makes no mention, however, of highly expensive tasks of cleaning up toxic waste dumps and military sites.
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The exam-ple that first comes to mind is Superfund, the response to toxic dumps .
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There is still no provision for a national toxic wastes dump .
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Through lawsuits and protests, toxic landfills and dumps near the Hudson River were closed.
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The mesquite forests that once lined a river brimming with unique native fish have given way to banks of toxic dumps .
waste
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The waste dump must be on a site with a suitable underlying geology; 2.
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Some environmentalists have expressed concern that using old mines as waste dumps could be both dangerous and expensive.
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The programme makes no mention, however, of highly expensive tasks of cleaning up toxic waste dumps and military sites.
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Communities of fish and invertebrates are attracted to structures such as oil platforms and nuclear waste dumps .
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Some manufacturing companies are also voluntarily cleaning up old waste dumps .
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Secondly, low-grade sources of minerals and waste dumps can be efficiently exploited.
■ NOUN
garbage
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Bigger garbage firms developed as concern about the safety of garbage dumps did.
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Trashmore, a local toboggan hill built atop a garbage dump .
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The largest group work at the municipal garbage dump near the banks of the river Cauca.
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It sat at the southern edge of San Salvador on land that had once held a garbage dump .
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He could be very thorough ... A body on a garbage dump nine miles out west of Atlanta.
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The entryway was a garbage dump for rotted food, and the stairways reeked of old and pungent uric acid.
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Countless numbers of discarded water jugs and plastic trash bags have turned many areas into garbage dumps .
rubbish
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They've agreed to postpone development of a rubbish dump for at least 10 years.
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Here there was a natural beach, bordered by a thin band of scrub: beyond it was the council rubbish dump .
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Rubbish raid: Thieves broke into a rubbish dump near Ripon.
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But over the past century we have made it into a rubbish dump .
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They searched for the money-filled teddy bear and were told it had been tossed on to a rubbish dump .
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With such vandals for subjects, it was fitting that they chose the Adam's Pass rubbish dump as their study site.
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Having escaped from their field, two goats wandered around for a while until they found themselves in a rubbish dump .
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People have become ever more hostile to the idea of living near a rubbish dump .
site
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Friends of the Earth is urging local authorities to use the new laws as a means of prosecuting polluting dump sites .
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Dangerous wastes will be deposited by error in the rivers and the dump sites that endanger residential neighborhoods.
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Concern was also focused on the fact that Ringaskiddy school was within 400 yards of the planned asbestos dump site .
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Once a retreat had been forced from one dump site , people believed they could do it again, and did.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a garbage dump
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an ammunition dump
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How can you live here? This place is a dump .
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The Ewells' place is a real dump .
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Why don't you do something about your room - it's a dump .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As dump opponents had feared, it explicitly sidesteps many of the ecological concerns raised last fall by Park Service scientists.
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Brown and gold among the green, purple flowers, the gorse in sunny dumps.
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Over in the sanitation department, long-neglected dumps are in urgent need of attention.
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Soroka also said market conditions would keep Allied from increasing dump tip fees.
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The initial reaction of the community to the news of the dump was that it was only what could be expected.
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The State of Illinois, south of Chicago, is an endless dump .
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There was a car dump there now.
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Though Aurul had posted two guards on the dump , they made no visible efforts to stop them.