dregs
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dregs
- /dɹɛɡz/
Rhymes with -ɛɡz
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noun dreg
- The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he powreth out of the same: but the dregges thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drinke them.
- The worst and lowest part of something. the dregs of society
Similar: debris, deposit, draff, dross, exuviate, feculence, grounds, grouts, lees, loser, orts, outcast, rabble, refuse, residue, residuum, riffraff, rubbish, scum, sediment, settling, trash, trub
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noun settled sediment
| Español | poso, concho, heces, hez, depósito, culín |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | तलछट talchaṭ |
| Português | borra |
| Français | lie |
| Deutsch | Bodensatz, Satz, Sediment, Niederschlag, Feststoff |
| Italiano | sedimento |
| Ελληνικά | κατακάθι katakáthi |
| Română | zaț, drojdie, sediment |
| Русский | оса́док osádok, отсто́й otstój, отбро́сы otbrósy, муть mutʹ, гу́ща gúšča |
| Tiếng Việt | cặn |
| العربية | تُفْل tufl |
| עברית | מִשְׁקָע |
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title = {dregs},
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