dumped

ADJECTIVE

abandoned

Synonyms

STRONG

deserted discarded dissipated dropped eliminated empty forgotten forsaken jilted left neglected rejected relinquished shunned sidelined vacated

WEAK

alone cast aside cast away eighty-sixed given up godforsaken left in the cold left in the lurch outcast passed up pigeon-holed side-tracked unoccupied vacant

Antonyms

WEAK

adopted chaste cherished defended innocent maintained moral pure restrained supported virtuous

ADJECTIVE

lorn

Synonyms

WEAK

alone bereft cast aside cast away derelict deserted desolate discarded dissipated dropped eighty-sixed eliminated empty forgotten forlorn forsaken given up godforsaken jilted left left in the cold left in the lurch neglected outcast passed up pigeon-holed rejected relinquished shunned side-tracked sidelined unoccupied vacant vacated

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The 3-acre parcel sat on construction fill dumped in the lagoon decades earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

The stocks that managers have aggressively dumped could bounce back soon because, in Golub’s decades of experience, “positioning data is mean-reverting,” he writes.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Bodexpress was the last to try, in 2019, but he reared leaving the starting gate and dumped his jockey.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Grove dumped his thoughts into marble composition notebooks to sharpen his thinking, said Richard S. Tedlow, a Harvard Business School professor emeritus who was granted access to those journals.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

“If the security guards hadn’t caught us and taken away our phones. And dumped us down here.”

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

dumped

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