dumps
noun/dʌmps/
/dʌmps/
Word Originearly 16th cent. (originally singular in the sense ‘a dazed or puzzled state’): probably a figurative use of Middle Dutch domp ‘haze, mist’.
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See dumps in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarydown in the dumps
- (informal) feeling unhappy synonym depressed
- He’d been down in the dumps since his girlfriend left him.
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