sewage

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  1. noun Liquid and solid waste carried off in sewers or drains.

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  • ; Garth asked, and Hammen grunted in agreement Choking from the fumes, Garth followed Hammen through the stygian darkness, cursing as the sewage washed up over the top of his boots and poured down inside to squish between his toes I can ;t see you, ; Garth whispered Then strike a light Garth pulled his dagger out of its sheath and held it aloft. —  The Gathering - Arena
  • Van der Riet said he thought the rise in shark attacks in Port St Johns "may be because of the content of the untreated effluent / sewage, the presence of prey species also attracted by the effluent / sewage, or a combination of both". —  News24
  • The demonstrators described the smell as similar to that of sewage, and added that it was hard to get rid of, even after a shower. —  English-writing Israeli-bloggers
  • Once the sewage was unable to flow through the main drain, it flowed back and entered the colonies. —  The Times of India
  • We suffer still from the sorry legacy of 1960s guerrilla theater, in which a San Francisco now ponders naming a sewage plant after George Bush, or a Sarah Bernhardt talks of her friends raping Sarah Palin. —  Works and Days
 

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  1. Perhaps sew, sewer (from Middle English, short for Anglo-Norman sewere; see sewer1) + -age.

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  1. from sew-, the apparent base of sewer, + -age. Cf. sewerage.
  2. from sewage, n.
 

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