Wastewater

Definitions

Any water that has been used in some human domestic or industrial activity and, as a result, now contains waste products.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: sewage, sullage, graywater, blackwater, washwater, poop water (informal)”

“The commission's recommendations would require⟳ the removal of toxins and heavy metals from wastewaters that now run⟳ into regional rivers and New York Harbor untreated, and collect⟳ at their bottom.”

“As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste⟳ products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow⟳ to a settling tank for removal.”

“Flash⟳ forward⟳ to 2017, early in the Trump presidency. From the wastewaters of the internet, cryptic comments float⟳ up from an anonymous figure⟳ known only as Q.”

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