Soot
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English
Noun
Soot (uncountable)- Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
Synonyms
Verbs for Soot
—begrimes; —besmears; —besmirches; — blackens; —blots; —blurs; —contaminates; —defiles; —eclipses; —flocculates; —jets; —obscures; —reeks; —screens; —settles; — smears; —smirches; —smudges; —soils; — sullies; —tarnishes; —veils.
Thesaurus
air pollution, alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, attritus, bedarken, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmirch, besmoke, black, blacken, blackening, blacking, blackwash, blot, blotch, bran, brand, burnt cork, calx, carbon, carbon black, charcoal, cinder, clinker, coal, coke, coom, cork, cosmic dust, crow, crumb, crumble, darken, denigrate, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dinge, dirt, dirty, dirty up, draff, dregs, dross, dust, dust ball, ebon, ebonize, ebony, efflorescence, ember, fallout, farina, feces, filings, flour, froth, fume, gas black, grime, grits, groats, grounds, ink, jet, kittens, lampblack, lava, lees, lint, loess, meal, melanize, mire, moraine, muck, muck up, mud, muddy, murk, night, nigrify, offscum, oversmoke, pitch, powder, precipitate, precipitation, pussies, raspings, raven, reek, sawdust, scoria, scum, sediment, settlings, shade, shadow, silt, sinter, slag, slime, sloe, smirch, smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, stove black, sublimate, sullage, tar
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Etymology
Old English sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtan (“soot”), a derivation of *sitjanan (whence also English sit). Cognate with Old Norse sót, Old Dutch soet and Middle Low German sōt. Compare similar ō-grade formation from the Proto-Indo-European root *sed- (“sit”) in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Common Slavic *sadja (“soot”) (Russian са́жа (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian са́жда (sážda)).
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