sludge
noun/slʌdʒ/
Frequency rank: #10,323 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid matter.
Example sentence
Workers had to remove thick sludge from the bottom of the old water tank.
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