MEANING
Fine black particles produced by incomplete burning and deposited on surfaces or released into air.
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Words that belong together
- chimney soot
- layer of soot
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Soot coated the chimney walls.
She wiped a layer of soot from the tile.
The fire left soot on the ceiling.
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Word forms
- Base
- soot
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: Mass noun; related verb forms recorded in Usage Notes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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