dregs

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɹɛɡz/

Noun

1. (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
2. (figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.

   the dregs of society

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 9

     Yet even now I had not drunk the bitter potion to the dregs; I was not yet persuaded of my loss; I did not yet feel in every pulsation, in every nerve, in every thought, that I remained alone of my race - that I was The Last Man.

Synonyms

• debris, deposit, draff, dross, exuviate, feculence, grounds, grouts, lees, loser, orts, outcast, rabble, refuse, residue, residuum, riffraff, rubbish, scum, sediment, settling, trash, trub

Translations

• French: lie
• German: Bodensatz, Satz
• Italian: sedimento
• Portuguese: borra
• Russian: оса́док
• Spanish: poso, concho, hez, depósito

Translations

• French: lie
• German: Abschaum, Dreck
• Italian: feccia
• Portuguese: escória
• Russian: отбро́сы
• Spanish: escoria, mugre, hez

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