sludge

Meaning of sludge

noun
  1. thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid components, especially the product of an industrial or refining process.
    the dumping of sewage sludge
    miscellaneous chemicals and treated sludges
  2. an unattractive muddy shade of brown or green.
    a sludge green
  3. sea ice newly formed in small pieces.

early 17th century: of uncertain origin; compare with slush.

Information about sludge

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of sludge is: sludges.
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Hyphenation of sludge

sludge

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • sludge is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

sludge synonyms

Meaning slime:

slime, goo, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze

Meaning soft, sticky matter resulting from the mixing of earth and water:

mud

Meaning soft mud or dirt:

mire

Meaning fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbour:

silt

Meaning a deposit of clay, silt, and sand left by flowing floodwater in a river valley or delta, typically producing fertile soil:

alluvium

Meaning a substance, such as mud or dust, that soils someone or something:

dirt

Meaning watery mud:

slush

Meaning a semi-liquid mixture, typically of fine particles of manure, cement, or coal suspended in water:

slurry

Meaning matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs:

sediment

Meaning the sediment of wine in the barrel; dregs:

lees

Meaning the remnants of a liquid left in a container, together with any sediment:

dregs

Meaning a sum of money paid into a bank or building society account:

deposit

Meaning solid particles, especially of coffee, which form a residue; sediment:

grounds

Meaning a substance precipitated from a solution:

precipitate

Meaning a small amount of something that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used:

residue

Meaning sticky mud or dirt:

clag

Meaning sticky mud; filth:

clart

Meaning a person who is lazy and has low standards of cleanliness:

slob

Meaning a substance which is considered unpleasant or disgusting, typically because of its dirtiness:

crud

Meaning sloppy or sticky semi-fluid matter, typically something unpleasant:

gloop

Meaning grime; dirt:

grunge

Meaning an unpleasantly sticky or viscous substance:

gunge

Meaning something unpleasant, dirty, or of poor quality:

grot

Meaning sticky and amorphous matter, typically something unpleasant:

glop

Meaning sediment, dregs, or grounds:

grouts

Translation of sludge

Words that rhyme with sludge

Budge, budge, fudge, gudge, Judge, abjudge, adjudge, cojudge, forejudge, forjudge, judge, misjudge, overjudge, prejudge, rejudge, subjudge, underjudge, unjudge, bludge, kludge, besmudge, mudge, resmudge, smudge, nudge, snudge, soudge, pudge, squdge, Bainbrudge, Banebrudge, Drudge, Rudge, begrudge, daydrudge, drudge, endrudge, grudge, rudge, trudge, wudge

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