dregs
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛɡz
[edit] Noun
dregs plural (the singular form dreg is far less common, the phrase to the last dreg still has currency)
- (collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
- (figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.
- the dregs of society
- bad person
[edit] Synonyms
- debris, deposit, draff, dross, exuviate, feculence, grounds, grouts, lees, orts, rabble, refuse, residue, residuum, riffraff, rubbish, scum, sediment, settling, trash, loser, outcast,
[edit] Translations
settled sediment
the worst and lowest
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