effluvium

noun

e-ˈflü-vē-əm How to pronounce effluvium (audio)
variants also effluvia
Definition of effluviumnext
as in debris
discarded or useless material the effluvia from local sewage treatment plants polluting the river

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for effluvium
  1. debris
  2. garbage
  3. sewage
  4. trash
  5. dust
  6. rubbish
  7. junk
Noun
  • Surveillance footage obtained by The News shows the explosion erupting on the building’s second floor, sending glass and other debris rocketing across the street.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The update was published 10 weeks after the hot fire test anomaly, and in parallel Blue Origin has rapidly been working to clear debris around the sprawling Launch Complex 36-A site in Florida and starting to rebuild a launch tower.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of debris
Noun
  • Unlike Lake Michigan, debris and garbage settle along the riverbed and near the banks, forcing divers to search through sediment and obstacles while currents continue to move beneath the surface.
    — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Residents are encouraged to use bear-resistant containers with lids latched, store garbage in a garage or shed until collection day, and put cans at the curb the morning of pickup rather than the night before.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of garbage
Noun
  • Health officials issued a no-swim advisory for an unnamed Lake Norman cove after about 2,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled into the lake Monday.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The wind whips up sewage dried to a powder that's been dumped for years onto an arid riverbed near the fishing settlement of Rehri Goth, on the outskirts of the Pakistani port city of Karachi.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of sewage
Noun
  • Debris Tree limbs, broken glass, metal, trash, or other materials could fall into or around the water during a storm.
    — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2026
  • That amount of waste would fill roughly 440,000 curbside trash bins.
    — Celina Tebor, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of trash
Noun
  • Emory University’s Salamova, who studies indoor exposure, found levels of QACs in dust in daycare and assisted living care facilities to be about three times higher than in residential homes.
    — Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Korean lunar orbiter spots Falcon 9 crash site The collision was expected to create a crater about 60 feet wide and 12 feet deep and throw a plume of dust and rock outward into the air.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of dust
Noun
  • This comes at the expense of no movement in the wrist, but to be fair, having the lightsaber pointed in any other direction would look rubbish.
    — Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Only construction waste will be accepted at the landfill such as, brush and rubbish, concrete, brick, rock, wood, paper, plastics, cardboard and roofing shingles and tiles.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2026
Definition of rubbish
Noun
  • Several symbolic scenes, similarly unfolding in sinuous long takes—a ritualistic repetition of local habits at the junk yard, a formal dance of non-seduction at a luncheonette with a jukebox—lay bare the town’s ingrained and unyielding mores.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026
  • In a lengthy feature published Sunday, the New York Times unpacked how Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison’s aggressive spending on AI has left his company so heavily leveraged that its bonds are nearing junk ratings.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of junk
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