slime
/slaɪm/ verb C2- To coat with slime.
- To besmirch or disparage.
- To carve (fish), removing the offal.
- To move like slime.
- To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
- To murder.
- To denigrate or slander.
He/she/it slimes · Past slimed · Past participle slimed · -ing form sliming
Verb forms
- Base form
- slime
- He/she/it
- slimes
- Past
- slimed
- Past participle
- slimed
- -ing form
- sliming
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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From amid a tuft of cotton grass which bore it up out of the slime some dark thing was projecting.
Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is forever buried.
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