mud
[noun]
Synonyms: dirt, clay, mire, ooze, silt, slime, sludge

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English Thesaurus: soil, earth, dirt, dust, mud, ...

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mud S3 /mʌd/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Probably from Middle Low German mudde]

1. wet earth that has become soft and sticky:
By the end of the game, all the kids were covered in mud.
The path beside the river was slippery with mud.
Many villages in Mali consist of mud huts.
boots caked with mud (=covered in mud)
It was impossible to move the car – its wheels had got stuck in the mud.

2. here’s mud in your eye spoken old-fashioned used for expressing good wishes when having an alcoholic drink with someone Synonym : cheers British English
⇒ as clear as mud at clear¹(18), ⇒ drag sb’s name through the mud at drag¹(10), ⇒ sb’s name is mud at name¹(15)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

mud
noun
ADJ. deep | glutinous, thick | hard | liquid, soft, sticky, wet | dried, dry footprints left in the hard dried mud
black, brown, grey, red
VERB + MUD be caked in/with, be covered in/with, be plastered with, be smeared with, be streaked with mud Her boots were caked in mud.
get/become bogged (down) in, get stuck in Several cars got bogged down in the mud.
churn sth into, turn (sth) to The cars had churned the lane into mud.
wallow in pigs wallowing in the mud
spatter (sb/sth with)
MUD + VERB ooze Wet mud oozed up between their toes.
crack The mud in the dried-up river bed had cracked.
MUD + NOUN brick, floor, house, hut | flats
PREP. in the ~ She fell in the mud.
through the ~ We squelched through the mud.
PHRASES a layer of mud, a sea of mud

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

soil the top layer of the earth that plants grow in:
Roses do best in well-drained, slightly acid soil.
earth the brown substance that the ground is made up of:
Thousands of tons of earth were moved to build the dam.
dirt American English loose dry earth:
a pile of loose dirt in the wheelbarrow
dust a dry powder made up of extremely small bits of earth or sand:
A cloud of dust billowed out behind the tractor.
mud wet soil that has become soft and sticky:
The dog came back covered in mud.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

the ground the surface of the earth, or the soil on its surface:
He collapsed and fell to the ground.
The ground was wet and muddy.
the ocean/forest/cave etc floor the ground at the bottom of the ocean, a forest, a cave etc:
Many wonderful creatures live on the ocean floor.
land used when talking about an area of ground that is owned by someone, or is used for an activity. Also used when talking about the part of the earth’s surface that is not covered with water:
His family owns a lot of land.
agricultural land
She got off the ferry, happy to be back on dry land.
terrain a type of land – used when talking about how easy an area of land is to cross, and whether it is rocky, flat etc:
The Land Rover is built to go over rough terrain.
The terrain gets flatter when you go further south.
earth/soil the substance that plants grow in:
The vegetables were still covered in black soil.
mud wet earth:
Your shoes are covered in mud.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

mud
mʌd
See: name is mud , stick-in-the-mud

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