Synonyms of the word

cesspool

• n. An underground pit where sewage is held.
• n. (by extension) A filthy place.

cesspit

• n. A cesspool; a pit or covered cistern used to collect sewage and waste water.

cistern

• n. A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
• n. (technical) In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
• n. (anatomy) A cisterna.

sink

• v. (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
• v. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
• v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To conceal and appropriate.
• v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
• v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
• v. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
• v. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent…
• n. A basin used for holding water for washing.
• n. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
• n. (geology) A sinkhole.
• n. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
• n. A heat sink.
• n. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
• n. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
• n. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink.
• n. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network.

sump

• n. A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
• n. The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
• n. A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
• n. (automotive) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
• n. (nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
• n. (construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
• v. (intransitive) Of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion.