"landfill" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈlænd.fɪl/ [UK, US] Forms: landfills [plural]
Etymology: land + fill Etymology templates: {{compound|en|land|fill}} land + fill Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} landfill (countable and uncountable, plural landfills)
  1. (countable) A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth. Tags: countable Translations (site at which refuse is buried): مَرْدَم (mardam) [masculine] (Arabic), zabortegi (Basque), abocador (Catalan), 堆填區 (Chinese Cantonese), 堆填区 (deoi¹ tin⁴ keoi¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 垃圾堆填區 (Chinese Cantonese), 垃圾堆填区 (laap⁶ saap³ deoi¹ tin⁴ keoi¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 填埋地 (tiánmáidì) (Chinese Mandarin), 垃圾場 (Chinese Mandarin), 垃圾场 (lājīchǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), skládka [feminine] (Czech), kaatopaikka (Finnish), décharge [feminine] (French), dépotoir [masculine] (French), ნაგავსაყრელი (nagavsaq̇reli) (Georgian), Deponie [feminine] (German), Mülldeponie (english: garbage) [feminine] (German), Müllhalde [feminine] (German), Müllabladeplatz [masculine] (German), χωματερή (chomaterí) [feminine] (Greek), szeméttelep (Hungarian), tempat pembuangan akhir (Indonesian), TPA [initialism] (Indonesian), tempat pembuangan sampah (Indonesian), láithreán líonadh talún [masculine] (Irish), discarica [feminine] (Italian), ទីលានចាក់សម្រាម (tii liən cak sɑɑsɑmraam) (Khmer), депо́нија (depónija) (english: garbage) [feminine] (Macedonian), tapak pelupusan sampah (Malay), tsʼiilzéí nehegeehédi (Navajo), fyllplass [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), fyllplass [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), Schuntaka [masculine] (Plautdietsch), wysypisko [neuter] (Polish), lixão [masculine] (Portuguese), aterro sanitário [masculine] (Portuguese), сва́лка f мусора (sválka) [masculine] (Russian), полиго́н m для захоронения n отходов (zaxoronenija) [plural] (Russian), skládka odpadu (Slovak), vertedero [masculine] (Spanish), tiradero [masculine] (Spanish), relleno sanitario [masculine] (Spanish), basural [masculine] (Spanish), basurero [masculine] (Spanish), soptipp [common-gender] (Swedish), tambakan ng basura (Tagalog), çöplük (Turkish), сміттєзвалище (smittjezvalyšče) [neuter] (Ukrainian), claddfa sbwriel [feminine] (Welsh), מיסטבאַרג (mistbarg) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-landfill-en-noun-R3MzJ~lL Disambiguation of 'site at which refuse is buried': 98 2
  2. (uncountable) The material so disposed of. Tags: uncountable Translations (material so disposed of): 填埋的垃圾 (tiánmái de lājī) (Chinese Mandarin), odpad [masculine] (Czech), kaatopaikkajäte (Finnish), Müll [masculine] (German), líonadh talún [masculine] (Irish)
    Sense id: en-landfill-en-noun-9pm7BMx3 Disambiguation of 'material so disposed of': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: landfill site

Verb

IPA: /ˈlænd.fɪl/ [UK, US] Forms: landfills [present, singular, third-person], landfilling [participle, present], landfilled [participle, past], landfilled [past]
Etymology: land + fill Etymology templates: {{compound|en|land|fill}} land + fill Head templates: {{en-verb}} landfill (third-person singular simple present landfills, present participle landfilling, simple past and past participle landfilled)
  1. (transitive) To dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site. Tags: transitive Derived forms: landfillable, landfill of history Translations (to dispose of waste): 填埋 (tiánmái) (Chinese Mandarin), skládka [feminine] (Czech), viedä kaatopaikalle (Finnish), loppusijoittaa kaatopaikalle (Finnish), deponieren (German), ablagern (German), scaricare [feminine] (Italian), sversare (Italian), aterrar (Portuguese), skládkovať (Slovak), depositar (Spanish), enterrar (Spanish), claddu sbwriel (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-landfill-en-verb-Oex1~ljL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 3 87

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "word": "tempat pembuangan akhir"
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          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
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          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "word": "tempat pembuangan sampah"
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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "láithreán líonadh talún"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "discarica"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "tii liən cak sɑɑsɑmraam",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "word": "ទីលានចាក់សម្រាម"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
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          "english": "garbage",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "depónija",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "депо́нија"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
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          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "word": "tapak pelupusan sampah"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "word": "tsʼiilzéí nehegeehédi"
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          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
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          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "Schuntaka"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "wysypisko"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "lixão"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "aterro sanitário"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sválka",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "сва́лка f мусора"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zaxoronenija",
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
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          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "word": "skládka odpadu"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "vertedero"
        },
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "tiradero"
        },
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          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
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          "word": "relleno sanitario"
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          "word": "basurero"
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          "word": "çöplük"
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "smittjezvalyšče",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
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          "word": "сміттєзвалище"
        },
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          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
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          "word": "claddfa sbwriel"
        },
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          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "mistbarg",
          "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
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          "word": "מיסטבאַרג"
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          "ref": "2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74",
          "text": "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.",
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          "roman": "tiánmái de lājī",
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
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          "word": "odpad"
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
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          "sense": "material so disposed of",
          "word": "kaatopaikkajäte"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "material so disposed of",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Müll"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ga",
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          "sense": "material so disposed of",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "líonadh talún"
        }
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}
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tiánmái",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "word": "填埋"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "skládka"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "word": "viedä kaatopaikalle"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "word": "loppusijoittaa kaatopaikalle"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "word": "deponieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "word": "ablagern"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "scaricare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "word": "sversare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "word": "aterrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "word": "skládkovať"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "word": "depositar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "word": "enterrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to dispose of waste",
      "word": "claddu sbwriel"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "landfill"
  ],
  "word": "landfill"
}

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          "text": "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.",
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "mardam",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مَرْدَم"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "zabortegi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "abocador"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "堆填區"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "deoi¹ tin⁴ keoi¹",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "堆填区"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "垃圾堆填區"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "laap⁶ saap³ deoi¹ tin⁴ keoi¹",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "垃圾堆填区"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tiánmáidì",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "填埋地"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "垃圾場"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lājīchǎng",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "垃圾场"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skládka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "kaatopaikka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "décharge"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dépotoir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "nagavsaq̇reli",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "ნაგავსაყრელი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Deponie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "garbage",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Mülldeponie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Müllhalde"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Müllabladeplatz"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "chomaterí",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "χωματερή"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "szeméttelep"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "tempat pembuangan akhir"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "initialism"
      ],
      "word": "TPA"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "tempat pembuangan sampah"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "láithreán líonadh talún"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "discarica"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "tii liən cak sɑɑsɑmraam",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "ទីលានចាក់សម្រាម"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "english": "garbage",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "depónija",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "депо́нија"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "tapak pelupusan sampah"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "tsʼiilzéí nehegeehédi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fyllplass"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fyllplass"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schuntaka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "wysypisko"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lixão"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aterro sanitário"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sválka",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сва́лка f мусора"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaxoronenija",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "полиго́н m для захоронения n отходов"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "skládka odpadu"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vertedero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tiradero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "relleno sanitario"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "basural"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "basurero"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "soptipp"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "tambakan ng basura"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "word": "çöplük"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "smittjezvalyšče",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "сміттєзвалище"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "claddfa sbwriel"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "mistbarg",
      "sense": "site at which refuse is buried",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "מיסטבאַרג"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tiánmái de lājī",
      "sense": "material so disposed of",
      "word": "填埋的垃圾"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "material so disposed of",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "odpad"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "material so disposed of",
      "word": "kaatopaikkajäte"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "material so disposed of",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Müll"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "material so disposed of",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "líonadh talún"
    }
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}
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  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": musora vs. sválka",
  "path": [
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  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "landfill",
  "trace": ""
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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": otxodov vs. poligón",
  "path": [
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  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "landfill",
  "trace": ""
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{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": poligón vs. dlja",
  "path": [
    "landfill"
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  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "landfill",
  "trace": ""
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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": dlja vs. zaxoronenija",
  "path": [
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  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "landfill",
  "trace": ""
}

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