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[syn: sewage, sewerage]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sewage \Sew"age\, n.
1. The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter
carried off by sewers
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2. Sewerage, 2.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sewerage \Sew"er*age\, n.
1. The construction of a sewer or sewers.
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2. The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general
drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
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3. The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In
this sense sewage is preferable and common.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sewage
n 1: waste matter carried away in sewers or drains [syn:
sewage, sewerage]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "sewage":
BM, bilge, bilgewater, bowel movement, buffalo chips, ca-ca,
carrion, coprolite, coprolith, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats,
crap, defecation, dingleberry, dishwater, ditchwater, droppings,
dung, feces, feculence, garbage, guano, jakes, manure, movement,
night soil, offal, offscourings, ordure, refuse, riffraff, scum,
scurf, sewerage, shit, slop, slops, slough, stool, swill, turd