I loathe these times like bitumen.
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Bitumen
//ˈbɪt.jʊ.mɪn//
Synonyms for "bitumen" (30 found)
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Related words (15)
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31 translations across 24 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- bitum noun (Mineral pitch)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄσφαλτος noun (Mineral pitch)
Bengali
1 entries- শিলাজতু noun (Mineral pitch)
Bulgarian
1 entries- битум noun (Mineral pitch)
Catalan
1 entries- betum noun (Mineral pitch)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 瀝青 /沥青 noun (Mineral pitch)
Dutch
2 entries- aardpek noun (Mineral pitch)
- bitumen noun (Mineral pitch)
Finnish
1 entries- bitumi noun (Mineral pitch)
French
1 entries- bitume noun (Mineral pitch)
German
1 entries- Bitumen noun (Mineral pitch)
Hebrew
1 entries- חמר noun (Mineral pitch)
Italian
2 entries- asfalto noun (Mineral pitch)
- bitume noun (Mineral pitch)
Japanese
2 entries- 歴青 noun (Mineral pitch)
- 瀝青 noun (Mineral pitch)
Latin
1 entries- bitūmen noun (Mineral pitch)
Polish
3 entries- bitum noun (Mineral pitch)
- bitumen noun (Mineral pitch)
- bitumin noun (Mineral pitch)
Portuguese
1 entries- betume noun (Mineral pitch)
Romanian
1 entries- bitum noun (Mineral pitch)
Russian
1 entries- би́тум noun (Mineral pitch)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- bìth noun (Mineral pitch)
- teàrr noun (Mineral pitch)
Spanish
2 entries- bitumen noun (Mineral pitch)
- brea noun (Mineral pitch)
Swedish
1 entries- bitumen noun (Mineral pitch)
Thai
1 entries- ยางมะตอย noun (Mineral pitch)
Turkish
1 entries- bitüm noun (Mineral pitch)
Yiddish
1 entries- ביטומען noun (Mineral pitch)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. Follow this with a layer of compacted "hoggin" – compacted clay, gravel and sand. This is then sprayed with hot bitumen, and has a layer of pea shingle rolled into it.
Source: wiktionary
another star reflected itself in the glassy black of the bitumened road
Source: wiktionary
The Litlata community have now built a mandi set in a pleasant garden, and to ensure the cleanliness of their yardna have bricked and bitumened the pool into which the water flows
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