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“sewers”
1. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
2. An artificial conduit, usually underground, for carrying off waste water and refuse, as in a town or city.
3. Someone who sews: "She was a sewer of fine gowns."
4. Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money: "All that work went right down the sewer."
5. Etymology: "conduit" from about 1402; from Anglo-French sewere, Old Norse French sewiere, "sluice from a pond"; literally, "something that makes water flow", from aphetic form (alteration of a word by loss of a short, unaccented vowel at the beginning) of Gallo-Romance exaquaria; from Latin ex-, "out" + aquaria, feminine of aquarius, "referring to water" from aqua, "water".
2. An artificial conduit, usually underground, for carrying off waste water and refuse, as in a town or city.
3. Someone who sews: "She was a sewer of fine gowns."
4. Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money: "All that work went right down the sewer."
5. Etymology: "conduit" from about 1402; from Anglo-French sewere, Old Norse French sewiere, "sluice from a pond"; literally, "something that makes water flow", from aphetic form (alteration of a word by loss of a short, unaccented vowel at the beginning) of Gallo-Romance exaquaria; from Latin ex-, "out" + aquaria, feminine of aquarius, "referring to water" from aqua, "water".
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aqua-, aquatic-, aqui-, aqu-, -aquatically, aque-, -aqueous
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