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lieju — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • mire noun An area of deep, soft mud or wet, boggy ground.
  • muck noun Wet, sticky dirt, mud, or manure.
  • MUD noun A soft, wet mixture of soil and water.
  • silt noun Fine particles of soil or mud carried and deposited by moving water.
  • slime noun A thick, sticky, wet substance, such as the mucus produced by snails or slugs.
  • sludge noun Thick, soft, semi-liquid mud, waste, or sediment.

Senses

lieju is used for these senses in English:

  • mire Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
  • muck Slimy mud, sludge.
  • mud A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
  • silt (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
  • slime Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

mire — full definition

  1. noun An area of deep, soft mud or wet, boggy ground.
  2. noun A difficult or messy situation.
  3. verb To become stuck, as if in mud.

muck — full definition

  1. noun Wet, sticky dirt, mud, or manure.
  2. verb To clean out dirt or manure, especially from a stable (often "muck out").
  3. verb In card games, to discard a hand face-down without showing it.

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