wastewater

See also: waste water

English

Alternative forms

• waste water, waste-water

Etymology

From waste +‎ water.

Pronunciation

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Noun

wastewater (countable and uncountable, plural wastewaters)

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

Synonyms

• sewage

Translations

water containing waste products

• Azerbaijani: lağım, gəndov
• Bulgarian: помия (bg) (pomija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 污水 (zh) (wūshuǐ)

• Danish: spildevand (da) n
• Esperanto: rubakvo
• Finnish: jätevesi (fi), likavesi (fi)
• French: eaux usées (fr) f pl
• German: Abwasser (de) n
• Italian: acque reflue f pl, acque di scarico f pl
• Japanese: 廃水 (ja) (haisui), 排水 (ja) (haisui)
• Korean: 폐수 (ko) (pyesu)
• Malayalam: മലിനജലം (malinajalaṁ)
• Persian: فاضلاب (fa) (fâzelâb), پساب (fa) (pasâb)
• Polish: ścieki (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: esgoto (pt) m
• Russian: сто́чные во́ды (ru) f pl (stóčnyje vódy), помо́и (ru) m pl (pomói)
• Swedish: avloppsvatten (sv) n, spillvatten (sv) n