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# sewage

«sewage» in Mova's school dictionary: **the dirty water and waste from toilets, sinks and drains…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (sewage — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sewage is the dirty water and waste from toilets, sinks and drains that flows through pipes called sewers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sewage/#m1)

2) It is cleaned at a sewage treatment plant before the water goes back into rivers or the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sewage/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons, the water cycle in towns includes sewage treatment; clean sewage systems stopped diseases like cholera. In safety lessons: never swim where sewage flows and wash hands after floods. Phrases: «raw sewage», «sewage treatment works», «sewage pipe».

### examples

- Sewage goes from our toilets through pipes to the treatment plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sewage/#x1)
- The beach was closed because sewage leaked into the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sewage/#x2)
- Old cities without sewage systems had lots of diseases. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sewage/#x3)
- Don't swim in flood water; it may have sewage in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sewage/#x4)
- The sewage works cleans the water before it goes to the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sewage/#x5)
- Only flush pee, poo and toilet paper, or the sewage pipes can block. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sewage/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «some sewage», not «a sewage». «Sewer» (SOO-er) is the pipe; «sewage» (SOO-idge) is what flows in it. Don't confuse with «sewer» meaning a person who sews (SO-er).

### In the corpora

- [Never play or swim in floodwater, because it contains sewage, chemicals and hidden dangers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/16/)
- [Tap water is cleaned at a water treatment works and used water is cleaned again at a sewage works.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/89-saving-water-and-energy/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sewage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sewage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.