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slurry

[slur-ee]

noun

plural

slurries 
  1. a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil.

  2. Ceramics.a thin slip.



verb (used with object)

slurried, slurrying 
  1. to prepare a suspension of (a solid in a liquid).

adjective

  1. of or relating to such a suspension.

slurry

/ ˈʌɪ /

noun

  1. a suspension of solid particles in a liquid, as in a mixture of cement, clay, coal dust, manure, meat, etc with water

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of slurry1

1400–50; late Middle English slory; perhaps akin to slur
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Word History and Origins

Origin of slurry1

C15 slory; see slur
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Example Sentences

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Lawrence bounds over to a shelf with several jars of a brown tinctured slurry, the results of which they’ll use to create a cacao perfume.

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Within two days of the trouts’ removal, the first storm of the season arrived, likely burying the remaining fish in a muddy slurry.

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Other heavy construction equipment including excavators and sluice and slurry pumps were brought in, as well as technical experts and "several hundred tons of gravel and earth", the US Army said.

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She gave a cautious welcome to the funding news, describing the "pure carnage" of "two trees, massive boulders, slurry down the hill", during Storm Bert.

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The fish — 6 years old and pretty big, as goldfish go — were swimming in a slurry of ash and debris.

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