cesspit[noun]Synonyms: sink, Augean stable, cesspool, den, pandemonium, Sodom, sty
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
cess‧pit /ˈsesˌpɪt/
noun [countable][
Date: 1600-1700;
Origin: cesperal 'cesspool' (1500-1600), probably from suspiral 'air hole' (14-16 centuries), from Old French souspirail, from souspirer 'to sigh'; influenced by pool]
1. (
also cess‧pool /ˈsesˌpuːl/) a large hole or container under the ground in which waste from a building, especially from the toilets, is collected
2. a place or situation in which people behave in a bad or immoral way:
For weeks the affair threatened to be a cesspit of scandal. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲