to slime
- verb
- /slaɪm/
- Yeah, don't let them slime you.
- get slimed
- slimed her way
Examples
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He accidentally slimed his clothes while trying to fix the old, leaky pipe.
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I've been slimed!
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Oh hey, he slimed me.
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I got slimed.
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The two-year-old toddles to Terminator and grabs his pants, sliming them with drool.
Fiction book (1991) -
The children had a blast as they slimed each other with green goo during the messy science experiment.
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The dog slimed the carpet after playing outside in the rain and rolling in mud.
Synonyms
To spread a substance over a surface in a messy way
Spread a thick layer of a wet thing like sauce or sunscreen on a surface
Make something dirty with mud or sediment
To make something dirty by covering it with mud
To make something dirty by covering it with dirt or soot
To cover something with a sticky or greasy substance
To make something dirty with a sticky or greasy substance
To smear something roughly with paint, plaster, or another soft wet material
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A slime mold that keeps its cells separate during its life cycle and does not form a single mass
- Specialized
One large soft mass of living material that moves and is not divided into separate cells
- Specialized
A soft organism that becomes one large cell with many nuclei and moves slowly
- Specialized
An algorithm inspired by the slime mold that finds efficient routes in networks
- Specialized
A soft mass of many cells that moves like an amoeba and feeds on decaying plants
- Specialized
Tiny living things that form slimy colonies in damp soil or rotting plants
- Specialized
A white, soft growth that lives on dead wood and decaying plants in damp places
How Slimy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slime as a verb comes from the same old word slīm, meaning 'sticky wet stuff', so to slime someone or something is to cover it with that slippery goo and make it dirty or slippery.