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dump

noun as in junkyard

noun as in slummy establishment

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The tropical storm was extremely slow moving, dumping huge amounts of rain on northern Honduras for four days running before moving north to Belize and Mexico.

From BBC

The number of hours in which sewage was dumped into London's River Thames more than quadrupled last year.

From BBC

Tropical Storm Trami dumped one month's worth of rain over large swathes of the northern Philippines in late October, leaving dozens of people dead.

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“We’re adding a potentially significant amount of toxic heavy metals when we dump retardant, no matter where we dump it in the watershed,” he said.

His admission that he had suffered from a brain worm, and a separate story about his dumping of a dead bear in New York's Central Park, dominated headlines for days.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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