Meaning

2 senses
  1. An underground pit where sewage is held.

    Sickergrube, Versitzgrube, Senkgrube

    выгребна́я я́маvygrebnája jáma, сто́чный коло́децstóčnyj kolódec

  2. (broadly, derogatory, figuratively)A filthy place.

    Sumpf

    клоа́каkloáka

More definitions
  • a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

Examples

4 sentences
  1. He fell into the cesspool and got covered from head to toe.

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  2. Back then, our grandparents had a cesspool which they sometimes had to empty.

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  3. Your arrogance won't get you anywhere and you'll end up abandoned in some cesspool's heap of shit.

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  4. I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
place for sewage:
filthy place:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
place for sewage:
filthy place:

Origin

From earlier sesspool. Origin uncertain.

From earlier sesspool. Origin uncertain.

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Forms

plural: cesspools

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcesspipe

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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