MEANING
Thick in the sense of resisting flow because of internal friction.
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- viscous fluid
- highly viscous liquid
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A viscous liquid crawled down the inside of the jar.
The pump struggled to move the viscous fluid.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more viscous; superlative most viscous. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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