Slime

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  • noun. A thick, sticky, slippery substance.
  • noun. A mucous substance secreted by certain animals, such as catfishes and slugs.
  • noun. Soft moist earth; mud.
  • noun. A slurry containing very fine particulate matter.
  • noun. Vile or disgusting matter.
  • noun. A despicable or repulsive person.
  • transitive verb. To smear with slime.
  • transitive verb. To remove slime from (fish to be canned, for example).
  • transitive verb. To vilify or malign (someone), especially publicly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Any soft, ropy, glutinous, or viscous substance.
  • noun. Asphalt or bitumen.
  • noun. A mucous, viscous, or glutinous substance exuded from the bodies of certain animals, notably fishes and mollusks: as, the slime of a snail. In some cases this slime is the secretion of a special gland, and it may on hardening form a sort of operculum. See slime-gland, clausiliumt and hibernaculum, 3 .
  • noun. Figuratively, anything of a clinging and offensive nature; cringing or fawning words or actions.
  • noun. In metallurgy, ore reduced to a very fine powder and held in suspension in water, so as to form a kind of thin ore-mud: generally used in the plural.
  • To cover with or as with slime; make slimy.
  • To remove slime from, as fish for canning.
  • To become slimy: acquire slime.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To smear with slime.
  • noun. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
  • noun. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
  • noun. Bitumen.
  • noun. Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
  • noun. A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
  • noun. See 1st Hag, 4.
  • noun. a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
  • noun. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
  • noun. Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
  • noun. = Jew’s slime (bitumen)
  • verb. To coat with slime.
  • verb. To besmirch or disparage.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any thick, viscous matter
  • verb. cover or stain with slime
  • Word Usage
    "I didn’t see any strings on the rocket ship, but when you see the plastic slime inching up the ramp toward our crew, you know it’s a plastic sheet of “slime”, and the freaky tie-dye technique with the Venus sky is pure 1960s state of the art."
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    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    begrime  bemire  colly  dirty  grime  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dime  Grime  Lyme  Time  anticrime  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    algae  clay  filth  fog  goo  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    slimed  slimes  sliming