dumps

American  

[duhmps] / dʌmps /

noun

1. a depressed state of mind (usually preceded byin the ).

   to be in the dumps over money problems.

---

dumps British  

/ dʌmps /

plural noun

1. informal a state of melancholy or depression (esp in the phrase down in the dumps )

---

dumps Idioms  

1. see down in the dumps.

---

Etymology

Origin of dumps

1515–25; compare German dumpf dull, Middle Dutch domp haze

Example Sentences

"There are months where I will be down in the dumps, and I'll post just the bare minimum. I can't compete with robots."

From BBC

Another banner year at the Celebrity Memoir Factory — a seemingly bottomless font of origin stories, trauma dumps and D-list confessions.

From Los Angeles Times

Residents in the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada are bracing for what could be record setting floods as an atmospheric river dumps heavy rain on already swollen rivers.

From BBC

“I was feeling so in the dumps that I’d be choking on a line that I didn’t even want to say because if I say it, I’ll start crying,” he recalls.

From Los Angeles Times

Marianne is first consumed by her own infatuation, then disconsolate when Willoughby dumps her for an heiress, and finally felled by a fever.

From The Wall Street Journal