I stepped in the sludge.
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Sludge
//slʌd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "sludge" (89 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (44)
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9 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 18 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- حَمأَة noun (residual material from a process)
- حَمَأ noun (residual material from a process)
- رُسَابَة noun (sediment of minerals in a steam boiler)
Bulgarian
3 entries- накип noun (sediment of minerals in a steam boiler)
- плаващ лед noun (small pieces of ice)
- шлам noun (residual material from a process)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 污泥 noun (generic term for separated solids)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝlimo noun (generic term for separated solids)
Finnish
4 entries- hyhmä noun (small pieces of ice)
- kattilakivi noun (sediment of minerals in a steam boiler)
- lieju noun (generic term for separated solids)
- liete noun (generic term for separated solids)
French
1 entries- lie noun (generic term for separated solids)
German
3 entries- Abwasserschlamm noun (residual material from a process)
- Matsch noun (generic term for separated solids)
- Schlamm noun (generic term for separated solids)
Irish
2 entries- dríodar noun (generic term for separated solids)
- dríodar noun (residual material from a process)
Japanese
2 entries- 泥 noun (generic term for separated solids)
- 泥土 noun (generic term for separated solids)
Korean
2 entries- 진창 noun (generic term for separated solids)
- 진흙 noun (generic term for separated solids)
Māori
2 entries- kene noun (generic term for separated solids)
- kene noun (residual material from a process)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Moarauss noun (generic term for separated solids)
Polish
2 entries- muł noun (residual material from a process)
- szlam noun (residual material from a process)
Portuguese
1 entries- sedimento noun (generic term for separated solids)
Russian
4 entries- ил noun (generic term for separated solids)
- оса́док noun (residual material from a process)
- шлам noun (generic term for separated solids)
- шлам noun (sediment of minerals in a steam boiler)
Spanish
4 entries- costra noun (small pieces of ice)
- fango noun (generic term for separated solids)
- fango noun (residual material from a process)
- lodo noun (generic term for separated solids)
Turkish
3 entries- atık noun (residual material from a process)
- tortu noun (residual material from a process)
- çamur noun (residual material from a process)
Ukrainian
1 entries- мул noun (generic term for separated solids)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
I can't imagine anything would grow in that toxic sludge.
Source: tatoeba (9032574)
Thick sludge bubbled out of a factory pipe into the nearby creek.
Source: tatoeba (9496295)
TikTok is a sludge of mostly useless content.
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