slum
noun
Often slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
slummed
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past participleof slum.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof slum.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
slumnounOften slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
Example Sentences
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Brooke Henderson, 17, slummed it on the Symetra Tour this week and won.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013
But I never slummed my pen, my lads, whate’er it might contain, While shearin’ for old Tom Patterson, on the One Tree Plain.
From The Old Bush Songs by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
