Sediment Synonyms and Antonyms

sĕdə-mənt
Matter that settles on a bottom or collects on a surface by a natural process
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. deposit
  2. lees
  3. precipitate
  4. dregs
  5. alluvium
  6. grounds
  7. residue
  8. settlings
  9. debris
  10. silt
  11. soot
  12. trash
  13. sedimentation
  14. dross
  15. solids
  16. dreg
  17. crap
  18. powder
  19. sand
  20. feculence
  21. loess
  22. grit
  23. gunk
  24. hypostasis
  25. gritty matter
  26. recrement
  27. refuse
  28. remains
  29. residuum
  30. scoria
  31. scum
  32. settling
  33. precipitation
  34. slag
  35. sludge
  36. waste
Antonyms:
  1. whole

Words Related to Sediment

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Sediment Sentence Examples

  • The river carries its sediment westward.

  • The waters between these beaches and the mainland are gradually filling with sediment and changing into tidal marsh.

  • When the whole of the sediment is on the cork, the iron clip, with which the latter is kept in position, is removed for a moment, and the force of the wine ejects the sediment and cork simultaneously.

  • I had withdrawn so far within the great ocean of solitude, into which the rivers of society empty, that for the most part, so far as my needs were concerned, only the finest sediment was deposited around me.

  • This dissolves out the zinc. Lime is added to bring down the gold, and the sediment, after washing and drying, is fused in graphite crucibles.

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