Synonyms for sediment
ˈsɛd ə məntsed·i·ment

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1. sediment

   Synonyms:
   settlement, lees, dregs, grounds, refuse, dross, residuum, precipitate

   Antonyms:
   elutriation, lixiviation, clarification, colature, edulcoration, nitration

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1. sediment, depositverb

   matter that has been deposited by some natural process

   Synonyms:
   down payment, bank deposit, alluviation, sedimentation, depositary, deposition, depository, deposit, repository

2. sedimentverb

   deposit as a sediment

3. sedimentverb

   settle as sediment

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1. • Deposit
   • Settle

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1. sedimentnoun

   Synonyms:
   dregs, lees, settlings, grounds, precipitate, DUNDER

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1. sedimentnoun

   Synonyms:
   precipitate, dregs, lees, settlings, grounds, feculence

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1. List of paraphrases for "sediment":

   sediments, sedimentary, sedimentation, pellet, depositional

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1. David Shankman:

   Everything in the lake has been dramatically altered by landscape change, dams and sand mining, the amount of water in the lake, in the Yangtze River, the sediment going in and going out - everything is affected by human activity.

2. Duong Van Ni:

   It's not a problem of the lack of water, it's the lack of sediment.

3. Peter Houde:

   They simply break into small bits as they weather out of the sediment before they are found. The preservation of ours is truly unusual, but a great deal of that may be due to the fact that we were able to locate them while they were still deep underground.

4. Takeshi Tsuji:

   Zones like the one we investigated are not uncommon along rifts, so I expect that similar reservoirs may exist elsewhere in the Okinawa Trough as well as other sediment-covered continental back-arc basins around the world.

5. Johann Klages:

   During the initial shipboard assessments, the unusual coloration of the sediment layer quickly caught our attention ; it clearly differed from the layers above it, we had found a layer originally formed on land, not in the ocean.