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SLIME

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any thick, viscous matter

Synonyms:

goo; gook; goop; guck; gunk; muck; ooze; slime; sludge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("slime" is a kind of...):

matter (that which has mass and occupies space)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slime"):

sapropel (sludge (rich in organic matter) that accumulates at the bottom of lakes or oceans)

Derivation:

slime (cover or stain with slime)

slimy (covered with or resembling slime)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover or stain with slime

Example:

The snake slimed his victim

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "slime" is one way to...):

begrime; bemire; colly; dirty; grime; soil (make soiled, filthy, or dirty)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

slime (any thick, viscous matter)

Credits

 Context examples: 

But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and by God he was going to have his say on it to the world.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

All these were blotted out by a grotesque and terrible nightmare brood—frowsy, shuffling creatures from the pavements of Whitechapel, gin-bloated hags of the stews, and all the vast hell's following of harpies, vile-mouthed and filthy, that under the guise of monstrous female form prey upon sailors, the scrapings of the ports, the scum and slime of the human pit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)