landfill
To dispose of by burying it at a landfill siteTo dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site.
Recorded US: Speaker: Qwertygiy Recorder: Qwertygiy, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
» I used to live next to a landfill.
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesTo dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site.
deponieren, ablagern
Examples
19 sentencesI used to live next to a landfill.
The river is like a floating landfill.
Light bulbs should be taken to landfills.
Plastic in landfills lasts for hundreds of years.
ruПластик на свалках не перегнивает в течение сотен лет. — TheWyld
Food is the largest source of garbage in landfills.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From land + fill.From land + fill.
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Forms
landfills, landfilling, landfilled, landfilled| Base form | landfill · to landfill |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | landfills |
| Present participle | landfilling |
| Past simple | landfilled |
| Past participle | landfilled |
regular · Lesson
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.