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slime

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1. slime - Noun

2. slime - Verb

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Bitumen.

Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.

Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.

Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.

A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.

To smear with slime.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka

"Consciousness,” according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self” was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion. Robert Charles Wilson

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. Aeschylus

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so. David Gemmell

Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters. Donald Grant Mitchell

The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull. Sylvia Plath

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