landfill
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landfill
- /ˈlæn(d).fɪl/ UK, US
Where it comes from
From land + fill.
verb landfills · landfilling · landfilled
- To dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site.
noun landfills
- A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth. A heart that's full up like a landfill / A job that slowly kills you
- Such material that is disposed. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: dump, junkyard, dustbin, dumpster, garbage, burrowing, sinking, burial, tip, embankment, layer, spill, spillage, outlet, firing, overflow
Translations
Every language
verb to dispose of waste
| Español | depositar, enterrar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 填埋 tiánmái |
| Português | aterrar |
| Deutsch | deponieren, ablagern |
| Italiano | scaricare, sversare |
noun site at which refuse is buried
| Español | vertedero, tiradero, relleno sanitario, basural, basurero, dompe |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 填埋地 tiánmáidì, 垃圾場 /垃圾场 lājīchǎng |
| Português | lixão, aterro sanitário |
| Français | décharge, dépotoir |
| Deutsch | Deponie, Mülldeponie, Müllhalde, Müllabladeplatz |
| Italiano | discarica |
| Ελληνικά | χωματερή chomaterí |
| Русский | сва́лка f мусора sválka, полиго́н m для захоронения n отходов zaxoronenija |
| العربية | مَرْدَم mardam |
Talk about this word "landfill." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/landfill. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. landfill. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/landfill "landfill." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/landfill.Cite this
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