American English pronunciation
How to pronounce sewer
IPA transcription: ['suɚ]
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Noun
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a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
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someone who sews
“a sewer of fine gowns”
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misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
“his career was in the gutter”
“all that work went down the sewer”
“pensions are in the toilet”
Usage examples
- The second channel becomes the Wennington Sewers complex.
- Storm drains are separate and distinct from sanitary sewer systems.
- The sewer systems could not cope and the roads were flooded.
- Venus was one of five turtles exposed to mutagen in the sewers.
- The city has low water, sewer and sanitation rates, well-maintained infrastructure, and excellent schools.
- In addition, plumbing vents allow sewer gases to be exhausted outdoors.
- This is a toilet sewer drain pipe.
- She is now stranded, stuck in the sewers.
- In the dark and muck of the sewer, neither party recognizes the other.
- I am a clothes sewer.