dregs
/dɹɛɡz/
dregs noun: the sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
Noun
dregs pl (normally plural, singular dreg)
- The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
- For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he powreth out of the same: but the dregges thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drinke them.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 75:8
- And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth / Throughout the fluid mass; but downward purged / The black tartareous cold infernal dregs1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC
- The worst and lowest part of something.
- the dregs of society
- I sat through the dregs of a long hectic evening.
dregs meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam
dregs in Hindi
- settled sediment
- तलछट talchaṭ
dregs in Tamil
- பருக்கை, திப்பி, வண்டல், அடிமண்டி, திப்பிலி, கூளம்
dregs in Telugu
- dregs, lees, sediment
- మడ్డి maḍḍi
dregs in Malayalam
- residue, sediment, deposit
- മട്ട്, അടിവ്, അടിമട്ട്, അടിച്ചിൽ, കിട്ടം, കീടം
- refuse, scum, riff-raff
- അധഃസ്ഥിതർ, അധഃകൃതർ, നവശായകർ, നീചജനം, കുറ്റവാളികൾ, നിന്ദ്യജനം
More languagesFewer languages
- dregs in Kannada
- ಹೆಟ್ಟ, ಬಗ್ಗಡ, ಗಸಿ, ಮಡ್ಡಿ
- dregs in Sanskrit
- कर्दम kardama
- dregs in Tagalog
- laro
- dregs in Arabic
- تُفْل tufl, حُثالَة ḥuṯāla
- dregs in Indonesian
- ampas
- dregs in Persian
- لرد lerd, درد dord
- dregs in Vietnamese
- cặn, cặn bã
Examples of dregs in a sentence
- The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof, / This is the end of every song man sings! / The golden wine is drunk, the dregs remain, / Bitter as wormwood and as salt as painc. 1897, Ernest Dowson, Dregs:
- If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr.1846 [1845], Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office:
Synonyms of dregs
Forms of dregs
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Origin of dregs
See dreg.
Words formed from dregs
Words that rhyme with dregs
Questions about dregs
- What does dregs mean?
- Dregs means the sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
- What is dregs in Hindi?
- Dregs in Hindi is तलछट (talchaṭ). See Dregs meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use dregs in a sentence?
- The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof, / This is the end of every song man sings! / The golden wine is drunk, the dregs remain, / Bitter as wormwood and as salt as pain
- What part of speech is dregs?
- Dregs is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dregs?
- Dregs is pronounced /dɹɛɡz/.
Words near dregs in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dregs (page history and authors); dregs (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); మడ్డి (Telugu) (page history and authors); dregs (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); dregs (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कर्दम (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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