dustheap
Americannoun
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a heap or pile of rubbish, refuse, or the like.
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oblivion; obscurity; disregard; disuse.
He was consigned to the dustheap after many years of public service.
Etymology
Origin of dustheap
Example Sentences
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Other reminders have ended up on history's dustheap.
From Time Magazine Archive
The more realistic among them can easily imagine ending up like Erich Honecker and his comrades: on the dustheap of history or in the dock.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a continent normally consigned to the political and economic dustheap, Yoweri Museveni has amply demonstrated that he is something different.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among them is Mecham, rising phoenix-like from the political dustheap just two years after he was thrown out of office.
From Time Magazine Archive
"On strict business principles, altruism apart, why not take what we can get out of Tim Gorman's invention and let the thing itself drop into the dustheap?"
From Gossamer 1915 by George A. Birmingham
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