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   slime

   /slīm/

   noun

   • 1. a moist, soft, and slippery substance, typically regarded as repulsive: "the cold stone was wet with slime"

   verb

   • 1. cover with slime: "what grass remained was slimed over with pale brown mud"

   Word Origin Old Englishslīm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch slijm and German Schleim ‘mucus, slime’, Latin limus ‘mud’, and Greek limnē ‘marsh’.

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