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slimed

slimed is the simple past and past participle of slime.

Meaning of slime

Verb

slime (third-person singular simple present slimes, present participle sliming, simple past and past participle slimed)

  1. (transitive) To coat with slime.
    • ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To besmirch or disparage.
  3. To carve (fish), removing the offal.
    • If so, this job was better than sliming salmon any day.1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 20
  4. (intransitive) To move like slime.
  5. (figuratively, intransitive) To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
  6. (slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To murder.

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Phrases with slimed

Questions about slimed

What is slimed the simple past and past participle of?
Slimed is the simple past and past participle of slime.

Words near slimed in the dictionary

  1. slimebags
  2. slimeball
  3. slimeballs
  4. slimebucket
  5. slimebuckets
  6. slimed
  7. slimed out
  8. slimeface
  9. slimefaces
  10. slimehead
  11. slimeheads

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