clay

(noun, verb)

noun

1. a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

Definition categories: substance, dirt, soil

2. water soaked soil; soft wet earth

Similar word(s): mud

Definition categories: substance, dirt, soil

3. the dead body of a human being

- honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay

Similar word(s): cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff

Definition categories: body

Sentences with clay as a noun:

- The French Open is played on clay.

verb

1. (transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.

2. (transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.