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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solid residue from liquid solution |
| Synonyms: | debris, deposit, dregs, dross, gook, grounds, gunk, lees, matter, powder, precipitate, precipitation, residuum, settling, silt, slag, solids, trash, waste |
| Antonyms: | whole |
| Main Entry: | detritus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debris |
| Synonyms: | deposit, fragments, grains, leavings, rubble, scree, sediment, shavings |
| Notes: | detritus originally meant 'wearing away by rubbing' - the action, not the product; now detritus is rubble or debris and detrition is erosion by friction |
| Main Entry: | filth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirt, pollution |
| Synonyms: | carrion, contamination, corruption, crud, defilement, dregs, dung, excrement, feces, feculence, filthiness, foul matter, foulness, garbage, grime, impurity, manure, mire, muck, mud, nastiness, ordure, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, refuse, rottenness, sediment, sewage, silt, sleaze, slime, slop, sludge, slush, smut, trash, uncleanness |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, purity, sterility |
| Main Entry: | refuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | garbage |
| Synonyms: | debris, dregs, dross, dump, dunghill, dust, hogwash, junk, leavings, litter, muck, offal, rejectamenta, remains, residue, rubbish, scraps, scum*, sediment, slop, sweepings, swill, trash, waste, waste matter |
| Notes: | one declines (or accepts) something that is offered; one refuses (or agrees) to accept something offered |
| Antonyms: | assets, possessions, property |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sludge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mud |
| Synonyms: | glop, goo, goop, grease, gunk, mire, muck, oil, ooze, scum, sediment, silt, slime, slop |
| Notes: | slush is partially melted snow, while sludge is the semisolid material produced by sewage treatment |
| Main Entry: | trash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | garbage |
| Synonyms: | debris, dregs, droppings, dross, excess, filth, fragments, junk, leavings, litter, oddments, odds and ends, offal, pieces, refuse, residue, rubbish, rubble, rummage, scourings, scrap, scraps, scum*, sediment, shavings, sweepings, waste |
| Notes: | debris is the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up; garbage is food that is discarded or useless rubbish or a receptacle where rubbish is discarded; trash is worthless material that is to be disposed or a worthless or contemptible person |
| Antonyms: | assets, possessions, valuables |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirt |
| Synonyms: | fuliginosity, grime, grit, residue, sediment, smoke, smudge, smut |
| Main Entry: | dross |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remains |
| Synonyms: | dregs, impurity, lees, recrement, refuse, scobs, scoria, scum, sediment, sinter, slag, trash, waste |
| Main Entry: | soot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carbon |
| Synonyms: | ash, ashes, grit, gunk, residue, sediment, smoke |
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