sewage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   wastewater and solid waste carried away from homes and other buildings through sewers

   Untreated sewage leaked into the river after the pipe broke.

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Formed in the nineteenth century from sewer or sew, an older verb meaning ‘to drain,’ plus -age. It first referred broadly to material carried through drains and sewers.

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