landfill
UK/ˈlæn(d).fɪl/
landfill verb: to dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site.
Verb
landfill (third-person singular simple present landfills, present participle landfilling, simple past and past participle landfilled)
Noun
landfill (countable and uncountable, plural 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 you1997, “No Surprises”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead
- A staff uniform recycling scheme at Govia Thameslink Railway has prevented the emission of 2,400kg of greenhouse gases. Some 620 sackloads of GTR clothing has been recycled in the past year through an advanced process called material reclamation - giving textiles a second chance instead of going to...2025 February 19, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 71
- 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.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
landfill meaning in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
landfill in Hindi
- भू-भराव
landfill in Telugu
- ల్యాండ్ఫిల్లింగ్
landfill in Malayalam
- ലാൻഡ്ഫിൽ ചെയ്യാൻ, ലാൻഡ്ഫിൽ ചെയ്യാനായി
landfill in Kannada
- ಭೂಭರ್ತಿ, ನೆಲಭರ್ತಿ, ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ಫಿಲ್
More languagesFewer languages
- landfill in Punjabi
- ਲੈਂਡਫਿੱਲਿੰਗ, ਲੈਂਡਫਿਲਿੰਗ, ਲੈਂਡਫੀਲਿੰਗ
- landfill in Gujarati
- લેન્ડફિલિંગ, લેન્ડફિલ કરવા માટે, લેન્ડફીલ કરવા માટે
- landfill in Nepali
- ल्यान्डफिल, ल्यान्डफिल गर्न, ल्याण्डफिल गर्न
- landfill in Tagalog
- tambakan ng basura
- landfill in Arabic
- مَرْدَم mardam
- landfill in Malay
- tapak pelupusan sampah
- landfill in Indonesian
- tempat pembuangan akhir, TPA, tempat pembuangan sampah
Examples of landfill in a sentence
- The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill.
- Virginia Beach actually had a large landfill before it was turned into a public park.
- Only plastics and synthetics that cannot be recycled will end up in landfills, he said.
Forms of landfill
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | landfills |
| present participle | landfilling |
| past participle | landfilled |
| past | landfilled |
| Noun | |
| plural | landfills |
Origin of landfill
From land + fill.
Words formed from landfill
Phrases with landfill
Questions about landfill
- What does landfill mean?
- Landfill means to dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site.
- What is landfill in Hindi?
- Landfill in Hindi is भू-भराव. See Landfill meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is landfill?
- Landfill can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce landfill?
- Landfill is pronounced /ˈlæn(d).fɪl/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of landfill?
- The past tense of landfill is landfilled.
Words near landfill in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: landfill (page history and authors); landfill (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); landfill (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); landfill (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); landfill (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); landfill (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); landfill (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); landfill (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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