dunghill

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Recent Examples of dunghill In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill. Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dunghill
Noun
  • Amend the planting site with aged manure or compost.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
  • He was accused of operating an unlicensed hog farm on his property and disposing hog manure in nearby lagoons.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And like the wildebeest, bison dung packs a nutritional punch when deposited across the landscape.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Decades before Colorado’s best singers, dancers and actors graced the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in downtown Denver, workers pushed brooms across the stage to clean up elephant dung, rodeo sawdust, and blood spatters from boxing matches.
    John Wenzel, Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
  • According to the study, the guano’s byproducts accelerated the formation of clouds by 10,000 times.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Deputies who responded to the scene said the home was covered in trash and smelled of human excrement.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Human excrement can contain a wide range of parasites, bacteria, and viruses that can contaminate bodies of water, causing harm not only to humans but also to flora and fauna.
    Owen Clarke, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In East Chisenbury, sheep dominated the feast, and while the midden contained hundreds of thousands of animals, research showed they were, in contrast, locally sourced.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The musket balls were found together near a midden by the metal detectorist, cultural heritage coordinator Anthony Simmons said in the release, meaning a member of the First Nations could have brought the shot belt there and then discarded it.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • The 1964 discovery of the leftover glow from the Big Bang was initially thought to be from bird poop.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Listen to learn why these flying poop machines might be ocean heroes in disguise.
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The study recommends strategic test areas of algicide and treatments to sequester nutrients after large-scale mechanical clearing of the muck.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Passing through clear plastic tubes, muck was sliced into disks like hockey pucks.
    Rodrique Ngowi, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Regenerative agriculture and bioenergy are at the center of this shift—restoring soils, reducing emissions and creating new value streams for farmers and communities.
    Lucy Hurst, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • And these survived only because clay and salt in the surrounding soil protected them from further decay.
    Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Big Think, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Dunghill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dunghill. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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