Dump and Pile

Dump

Dump noun - A place where discarded materials (as trash) are dumped.

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Pile and dump are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pile" instead the word "Dump" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: dumps, dumpy, dumping, dumped, dumper

Pile noun - A quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another.

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Dump and pile are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dump" instead the word "Pile" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: piled, piling

old	old dump	old pile
good	good dump	good pile
full	full dump	full pile
complete	complete dump	complete pile
Other adjectives: endless, green, single, entire, large, big, great, enormous, huge, miserable, hidden, gigantic, walking, literal, said, nearby, giant, radioactive, toxic, nuclear, largest.

They also shun Ralph after the game is shut off at night, making him sleep in a brick pile in a dump, even though they are perfectly aware that it's his freaking job to wreck their building.

Source: The Scrappy / Animated Film
Grissom uses a backhoe to dump in a pile of dirt roughly equivalent to Nick's body weight to stop the explosion.

Source: Weight and Switch
Green Aesop: The episode "Stacy Cleans Up." The local dump closes and garbage bags pile up around the station, and an engineer with a trainload of garbage keeps picking up more, but no one wants to let him unload it in their town.

Source: Series / Shining Time Station

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