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slurry
[slur-ee]
noun
plural
slurriesa thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil.
Ceramics.a thin slip.
verb (used with object)
to prepare a suspension of (a solid in a liquid).
adjective
of or relating to such a suspension.
slurry
/ ˈʌɪ /
noun
a suspension of solid particles in a liquid, as in a mixture of cement, clay, coal dust, manure, meat, etc with water
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of slurry1
Example Sentences
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.
Within two days of the trouts’ removal, the first storm of the season arrived, likely burying the remaining fish in a muddy slurry.
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.
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.
The fish — 6 years old and pretty big, as goldfish go — were swimming in a slurry of ash and debris.
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