Synonyms of the word sludge


SLUDGEGOO - GOOK - GUNK - MATTER - MUCK - OOZE - PRECIPITATE - SLIME - SUBSTANCE

sludge

  • n. Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
  • n. A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
  • n. A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
  • n. A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a body of water.
  • n. (uncountable, music) sludge metal.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) to slump or slouch.
  • v. (intransitive) to slop or drip slowly.

goo

  • n. (uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery;…
  • n. Excessive, showy sentimentality.
  • v. (transitive) To apply goo to something.
  • n. An example of baby talk.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce baby talk.

gook

  • n. (slang, vulgar, pejorative, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Far Eastern or Oceanian descent, especially…
  • n. (dated) A foreigner, especially an enemy soldier in wartime.
  • n. (informal) Grime or mud.

gunk

  • n. (uncountable, informal) dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance.
  • n. (uncountable) A subculture of 21st century American males, combining elements of modern gothic culture…
  • n. (countable) A member of the gunk subculture.
  • v. To soil or make dirty.

matter

  • n. Substance, material.
  • n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
  • n. An approximate amount or extent.
  • n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
  • n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
  • n. (dated) Pus.
  • v. (intransitive) To be important.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.
  • v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

muck

  • n. Slimy mud.
  • n. Soft or slimy manure.
  • n. dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
  • n. Anything filthy or vile.
  • n. (obsolete, derogatory) money.
  • v. To shovel muck.
  • v. To manure with muck.
  • v. To do a dirty job.
  • v. (poker, colloquial) To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already…

ooze

  • n. Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.
  • n. Secretion, humour.
  • n. A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck.
  • n. A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous…
  • v. (intransitive) To be secreted or slowly leak.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To give off a sense of (something).
  • n. Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.
  • n. A piece of soft, wet, pliable turf.
  • n. The liquor of a tanning vat.

precipitate

  • v. (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
  • v. (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
  • v. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
  • v. (intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
  • v. (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
  • v. (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet,…
  • v. (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
  • adj. headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
  • adj. Very steep; precipitous.
  • adj. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
  • adj. Moving with excessive speed or haste.
  • adj. Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
  • n. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
  • n. (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

slime

  • n. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that…
  • n. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals,…
  • n. (informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
  • n. (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
  • n. (obsolete) = Jew’s slime (bitumen).
  • v. (transitive) To coat with slime.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.

substance

  • n. Physical matter; material.
  • n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
  • n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
  • n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
  • n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
  • n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
  • n. (theology) Hypostasis.

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