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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
slicken .
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Examples
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In the harbor, piers and shipping containers have collapsed into water slickened by an oil spill.
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The Russian lost control on rain-slickened cobblestones and slid for about 10 yards.
Menchov recovers from fall, clinches Giro d'Italia victory 2009
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Powers regained the advantage a minute later, however, when Trebon touched a foot in a root-slickened uphill switchback.
Powers edges Trebon in finale to Cincinnati UCI3 Cyclocross Festival 2010
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Felicia tensed again, but fresh moisture slickened her folds.
Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010
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We gazed out of the rain-slickened ferry window, searching for the Manhattan skyline.
The MTA Dining Car: Eating Club: Staten Island Ferry To Little Sri Lanka The MTA Dining Car 2010
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A study in the 1970s found that dolphins avoid oil-slickened waters, but anecdotal evidence and observations gathered since then suggest these marine mammals may be attracted to strange, iridescent currents slicked with oil.
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So while the live-streaming underwater oil cam and the photos of oil-slickened pelicans are fresh on everyone's mind, activists have begun working them to their advantage.
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Felicia tensed again, but fresh moisture slickened her folds.
Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010
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So while the live-streaming underwater oil cam and the photos of oil-slickened pelicans are fresh on everyone's mind, activists have begun working them to their advantage.
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So while the live-streaming underw ater oil cam and the photos of oil-slickened pelicans are fresh on everyone's mind, activists have begun working them to their ...
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