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like molasses

like molasses prepositional phrase: very slowly and gradually.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (simile) Very slowly and gradually.

Questions about like molasses

What does like molasses mean?
Like molasses means very slowly and gradually.
What part of speech is like molasses?
Like molasses is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like molasses in the dictionary

  1. like likes
  2. like liking
  3. like mad
  4. like magic
  5. like merry hell
  6. like molasses
  7. like molasses in January
  8. like mother, like daughter
  9. like mushrooms
  10. like new
  11. like no other

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