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Refuse heap   /rəfjˈuz hip/   Listen
Refuse heap

noun
1.
An accumulation of refuse and discarded matter.  Synonyms: garbage heap, junk heap, junk pile, rubbish heap, scrapheap, trash heap, trash pile.





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... so wept for her son, the first Dauphin, who died the 4th of June, 1789, at the beginning of the Revolution,—the disinterrers of kings violated the grave of this child and threw his bones on the refuse heap. Iconoclasts, jealous of death, disputed its prey, and they profaned among others the sepulchres of Madame Henrietta of England, of the Princess Palatine, of the ...
— The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X • Imbert De Saint-Amand


Words linked to "Refuse heap" :   trash dump, wasteyard, dumpsite, garbage dump, waste-yard, rubbish dump, dump


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