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Word entry · 6 letters

sludge

Best crossword clue

"Thick muddy residue"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /slʌd͡ʒ/Part of speech nounSorted deglsuStarts with SEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the precipitate produced by sewage treatment

Word origin

From 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.

Used in a sentence

  • Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

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