Definitions for slurry

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slurry slur·ry

Spelling: [slur-ee]

IPA: /ˈslɜr i/

Slurry is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in slurry (lrrsuy).

Definitions for slurry

noun

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.

adjective

1. of or relating to such a suspension.

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of slurry

1400-50; late Middle English slory; perhaps akin to slur

Examples for slurry

slurry, slur′i, n. any one of several semi-fluid mixtures, esp.

Indeed, there are whole generations who only know him in his slurry buccaneer phase from Pirates of the Caribbean.

At the upper end the raw material is fed in either as a dry powder or as a slurry; at the lower end is a powerful burner.

These streams fill the channel with a slurry of mud and commonly transport considerable quantities of sediment for a day or two.

Volcanoes spewed lava and ash, ocean floors were thrust upward, sand and rock and shale settled into slurry.