effluence
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In these homes, effluence from toilets and showers flows through drains into a pit in a yard instead of into a sewer line and to a central wastewater treatment plant.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2023
The combined effluence of 400-plus Antarctic lakes no doubt exerts a significant influence on the Southern Ocean’s chemistry and biology.
From Scientific American • Apr. 12, 2020
But it actually is a Spanish expression, “of where the sea goes”; while the Spanish never settled this area, they would empty their bilges so the ocean would wash away their effluence.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016
Green sludge came to represent the effluence of government and industry—toxic waste as literal and figurative pollution.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016
He is rather a seer, accordingly, than a fashioner, and what he produces will be less a work than an effluence.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
Vocabulary lists containing effluence
By the Roots: Fluere: to flow (flu-)
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