Dump
Dump verb - To end a usually intimate relationship with.
Usage example: all of her friends were telling her to dump the jerk already
Take
Take verb - To reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms.
How words are described
| good | good dump | good take |
| long | long dump | long take |
| similar | similar dump | similar take |
| complete | complete dump | complete take |
| Other adjectives: single, actual, real, large, big, great, enormous, huge, major, literal, extended. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The Angry Video Game Nerd will take you back to the past, to play the shitty games that suck ass, even if he would rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear.
Source: Memetic Badass / Web Original - Then Terry Pratchett went and justified it all in Thief of Time by explaining that the history monks just take any time they need and dump any leftover time they have into the ocean.
Source: Retcon / Literature -
Take, for example, the M270 MLRS◊, which looks for all the world like an weaponized, tracked dump truck.
Source: Big Badass Rig
Cite this Source
Take and Dump. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dump/take
Dump & Take. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/dump/take>.
Take or Dump. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dump/take.
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