Cesspool Definition

sĕspo͝ol
cesspools
noun
cesspools
A deep hole or pit in the ground, usually covered, to receive drainage or sewage from the sinks, toilets, etc. of a house.
Webster's New World
A center of moral corruption.
Webster's New World
A filthy, disgusting, or morally corrupt place.
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Other Word Forms of Cesspool

Noun

Singular:
cesspool
Plural:
cesspools

Origin of Cesspool

  • 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 suspire

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • By folk etymology (influence from pool) from earlier cesperalle, alteration of Middle English suspiral, from Middle French souspirail (“air hole”), from soupirer, souspirer (“to sigh, breathe”), from Latin suspirare.

    From Wiktionary

Cesspool Sentence Examples

  • It compared the earth to a cesspool.

  • It looked like a war zone and smelled like a cesspool.

  • There is a small cesspool, one of which had been closed by the tenants because of the offensive smell.

  • In the event of a complaint being made to a district council that any drain, closet, privy, ashpit or cesspool is a nuisance or injurious to health, the council may empower their surveyor to enter and examine the premises, and, if the complaint is well founded, they may require the owner to do the necessary works.

  • People didn't want to spend the money emptying the cesspool and just put a pipe in to run into the nearest dike.

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