slimed
- adjective
- /slaɪmd/
- She recoiled in disgust as her fingers touched the slimed surface of the old pond.
Examples
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- So basically, what you're telling me... ...is you guys were all, heh, slimed.
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He was even more mud-slimed and wind-savaged, but one would have known that squat, tanklike build and the massive, overhanging brow and the perfect blue-black of his skin almost anywhere.
Fiction book (1998) -
After the heavy rain, the path was slimed with puddles of mud.
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The fish was slimed with a shiny coating that made it slippery to hold.
Synonyms
Covered in a wet, slippery layer, like on fish or rocks
Thick and sticky in a wet, unpleasant way
Covered with sticky, dirty stuff
Thick, soft, and wet like mud that makes walking hard
Sticky and messy with a soft unpleasant covering
Covered with smudges or marks that make it look dirty
Thick, sticky, and slow to move like wet mud
Completely covered by something so it is hidden or overwhelmed
A thing that has mud on it, like boots or a coat after walking in wet ground
Covered thickly with dark dirt or soot
Antonyms
How Slimy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Slimed comes from slime, an old word for a 'sticky wet substance' like mud or mucus. So to be slimed is to be covered in that sticky, slippery goo, which explains the modern meaning.