Synonyms of the word

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.

cesspit

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

cesspool

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

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.

reservoir

• n. A place where anything is kept in store.
• n. A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
• n. A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
• n. A supply or source of something.
• n. A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.

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.

well

• adv. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
• adv. (manner) Completely, fully.
• adv. (degree) To a significant degree.
• adv. (degree, Britain, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
• adv. In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
• adj. In good health.
• adj. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.
• interj. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
• interj. An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled.
• interj. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
• interj. Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause.
• interj. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting.
• n. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
• n. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
• n. A small depression suitable for holding liquid, or other objects.
• n. (figuratively) A source of supply.
• n. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through…
• n. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
• n. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having…
• n. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out…
• n. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
• n. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
• n. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
• n. A well drink.
• n. (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
• n. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test…
• v. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
• v. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.