sludge
To slump or slouchTo slump or slouch.
» I stepped in the sludge.
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2 senses(informal, intransitive)To slump or slouch.
(intransitive)To slop or drip slowly.
Examples
6 sentencesI stepped in the sludge.
TikTok is a sludge of mostly useless content.
Ziri mashed the medlars into a delicious brown sludge.
I can't imagine anything would grow in that toxic sludge.
Thick sludge bubbled out of a factory pipe into the nearby creek.
Origin
From Middle English slugge, sluche (“mud, mire”), probably an alteration of Middle EnglishFrom Middle English slugge, sluche (“mud, mire”), probably an alteration of Middle English sliche, slicche ("mud, slush, tar"; whence Modern English slitch), from Old English *sliċ, from Proto-West Germanic *sliki, *slīk, from Proto-Germanic *slikiz, *slīką (“mud, slush”). Cognate with Dutch slijk, German Schlick. Compare also slush.
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Forms
sludges, sludging, sludged, sludgedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle