Definitions for sludge

sludge sludge

Spelling: [sluhj]
IPA: /slʌdʒ/

Sludge is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in sludge (deglsu).

Definitions for sludge

noun

  1. mud, mire, or ooze; slush.
  2. a deposit of ooze at the bottom of a body of water.
  3. any of various more or less mudlike deposits or mixtures.
  4. the sediment in a steam boiler or water tank.
  5. broken ice, as on the sea.
  6. a mixture of some finely powdered substance and water.
  7. sediment deposited during the treatment of sewage.
  8. Also called activated sludge. Bacteriology. sewage sediment that contains a heavy growth of microorganisms, resulting from vigorous aeration.
  9. a fine, mudlike powder produced by a mining drill.

Origin of sludge

1640-50; variant of dial. slutch, slitch, Middle English slich slime, wet mud (compare its derivative slucched muddy); apparently of expressive orig.

Examples for sludge

In 1992 the EPA removed 97,000 tons of liquid waste, and 60 tons of sludge from the site.

The mud or sludge would form into scale if allowed to remain.

No sea-weed, no fishy particles, no sludge, no beards of oysters.

They are quite accustomed there to dealing with the precipitation of sludge.

One who has noticed it in the Teviot says, that the inhabitants there call it "sludge."

The sludge was sent by rail and spread around on a defunct resort ranch near Sierra Blanca.

sludge forms an appreciable but unavoidable source of loss of material.

It is found at Birmingham that one ton of sludge with 90 per cent.

Rain had fallen heavily overnight and the streets were caked in sludge.

Forensic tests showed the birds died after becoming coated in sludge, Hubbard said.

Word Value for sludge
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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