cesspool

cess·pool

C0217700 (sĕs′po͞ol′)n.1. A covered hole or pit for receiving drainage or sewage, as from a house.2. A filthy, disgusting, or morally corrupt place.

[Perhaps alteration (influenced by pool) of obsolete cesperalle, drainpipe, from Middle English suspiral, vent, from Old French sospirail, breathing hole, from souspirer, to breathe, from Latin suspīrāre, to sigh; see suspire.]

cesspool

(ˈsɛsˌpuːl) or

cesspit

n1. (Building) Also called: sink or sump a covered cistern, etc, for collecting and storing sewage or waste water2. a filthy or corrupt place: a cesspool of iniquity. [C17: changed (through influence of pool¹) from earlier cesperalle, from Old French souspirail vent, air, from soupirer to sigh; see suspire]

cess•pool

(ˈsɛsˌpul)

n. 1. a reservoir for the sediment of a drain or for receiving the sewage from a house. 2. a place of filth or immorality. [1575–85; cess (< Italian cesso privy < Latin rēcessus recess]

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cesspool - a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into itcesspit, sump, sinkcistern - an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater

cesspool

nounA place known for its great filth or corruption:cesspit, pit, sink.Slang: armpit.

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cesspool:

see septic tankseptic tank,
underground sedimentation tank in which sewage is retained for a short period while it is decomposed and purified by bacterial action. The organic matter in the sewage settles to the bottom of the tank, a film forms excluding atmospheric oxygen, and anaerobic
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cesspool

[′ses‚pül] (civil engineering) An underground tank for raw sewage collection; used where there is no sewage system. Also known as cesspit.

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cesspool 1. A lined and covered excavation in the ground which receives the discharge of domestic sewage or other organic wastes from a drainage system, so designed as to retain the organic matter and solids, but permitting the liquids to seep through the bottom and sides; also called a leaching cesspool or pervious cesspool. 2. (Brit.) A wooden box, usually lead-lined, constructed in a roof or gutter, to collect rainwater, which then passes to a downpipe.

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noun a place known for its great filth or corruption

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noun a covered cistern

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