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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishslumslum1 /slʌm/ ●くろまる○しろまる○しろまる noun 1 [countable]POOR a house or an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where very poor people live a slum area slum housing the slums of London► see thesaurus at area 2 [singular] British English informalUNTIDY a very untidy placeExamples from the Corpusslum• Maria lives with her eight children in a slum outside Montevideo.• Or Pavitra, who drinks contaminated water in her Delhi slum.• The overall effect was that the world's largest and richest city of the time contained the world's most extensive slums.• He resumed his familiar whirlwind visits to the Lima slums, feeding on the energy of friendly crowds.• I grew up in the East London slums.• In the slums you can now hear the children singing.• A great deal of money has been spent conserving a block of less-than-distinguished Victorian slums and warehouses.slumslum2 verb → slum it/be slumming → See Verb table Examples from the Corpusslum• You just can not go slumming, because slumming pretends that slums aren't real.• She made it clear that she was just slumming for a while in this business.• With other upper-middle-class young men who were studying art, Toulouse-Lautrec began slumming it in bohemian Montmartre.• Perhaps they were also saying - you can not go slumming, not in New York.
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Verb table
slum
Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they slum
he, she, it slums
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they slummed
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have slummed
he, she, it has slummed
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had slummed
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will slum
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have slummed
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Continuous Form
Present
I am slumming
he, she, it is slumming
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you, we, they are slumming
Past
I, he, she, it was slumming
you, we, they were slumming
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have been slumming
he, she, it has been slumming
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been slumming
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be slumming
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been slumming
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