He fell into the cesspool and got covered from head to toe.
Source: tatoeba (327009)
Cesspool
//ˈsɛsˌpuːl//
Synonyms for "cesspool" (24 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
57 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- بَالُوعَة noun (place for sewage)
- بَيَّارَة صَرْف noun (place for sewage)
- بِئْر تَسْرِيب noun (place for sewage)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 污水池 noun (place for sewage)
- 污穢的地方 /污秽的地方 noun (filthy place)
- 糞坑 /粪坑 noun (place for sewage)
- 糞池 /粪池 noun (place for sewage)
Czech
1 entries- žumpa noun (place for sewage)
Dutch
1 entries- beerput noun (place for sewage)
Finnish
3 entries- likakaivo noun (place for sewage)
- likavesikaivo noun (place for sewage)
- läävä noun (filthy place)
French
4 entries- cloaque noun (filthy place)
- fosse noun (place for sewage)
- fosse d’aisance noun (place for sewage)
- porcherie noun (filthy place)
German
4 entries- Abfallgrube noun (place for sewage)
- Güllegrube noun (place for sewage)
- Jauchegrube noun (place for sewage)
- Jauchengrube noun (place for sewage)
Greek
2 entries- βόθρος noun (place for sewage)
- καταβόθρα noun (place for sewage)
Hungarian
3 entries- emésztőgödör noun (place for sewage)
- pöcegödör noun (place for sewage)
- pöcegödör noun (filthy place)
Italian
4 entries- cesso alla turca noun (place for sewage)
- fogna noun (place for sewage)
- fogna noun (filthy place)
- fossa biologica noun (place for sewage)
Maltese
1 entries- ħarrajja noun (place for sewage)
Polish
2 entries- szambo noun (place for sewage)
- szambo noun (filthy place)
Portuguese
2 entries- chiqueiro noun (filthy place)
- fossa noun (place for sewage)
Russian
3 entries- выгребна́я я́ма noun (place for sewage)
- клоа́ка noun (filthy place)
- сто́чный коло́дец noun (place for sewage)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- poll-caca noun (place for sewage)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- septička jama noun (place for sewage)
Slovak
1 entries- žumpa noun (place for sewage)
Spanish
3 entries- cloaca noun (filthy place)
- pozo ciego noun (place for sewage)
- pozo negro noun (place for sewage)
Swedish
4 entries- avloppsbrunn noun (place for sewage)
- dypöl noun (filthy place)
- kloak noun (filthy place)
- kloakbrunn noun (place for sewage)
Tagalog
2 entries- poso siyego noun (place for sewage)
- poso syego noun (place for sewage)
Turkish
2 entries- bok çukuru noun (filthy place)
- mezbele noun (place for sewage)
Volapük
1 entries- jiedotasep noun (place for sewage)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Source: tatoeba (6289664)
Back then, our grandparents had a cesspool which they sometimes had to empty.
Source: tatoeba (13281989)
Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Source: wiktionary
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