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MUD
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Irregular inflected forms: mudded , mudding
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slanderous remarks or charges
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("mud" is a kind of...):
slander (words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Water soaked soil; soft wet earth
Synonyms:
clay; mud
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mud" is a kind of...):
dirt; soil (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mud"):
bleaching clay; bleaching earth (an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils)
mud pie (a mass of mud that a child has molded into the shape of pie)
mire; slop (deep soft mud in water or slush)
Derivation:
mud (plaster with mud)
mud (soil with mud, muck, or mire)
muddy ((of soil) soft and watery)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plaster with mud
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "mud" is one way to...):
daub; plaster (coat with plaster)
Domain category:
masonry (the craft of a mason)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
mud (water soaked soil; soft wet earth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Soil with mud, muck, or mire
Example:
The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "mud" is one way to...):
begrime; bemire; colly; dirty; grime; soil (make soiled, filthy, or dirty)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
mud (water soaked soil; soft wet earth)
Context examples:
By George, gentlemen, our balls just stuck in her timbers like stones in a mud wall.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The wall carries rocks, mud, and rubble and can sweep away most things in its path.
(Floods, Federal Emergency Management Agency)
You can only throw mud at the men who have risked their lives to open new fields to science.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then stretching himself upon his face and leaning his chin upon his hands, he made a careful study of the trampled mud in front of him.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It would make them sometimes hug, and sometimes tear one another; they would howl, and grin, and chatter, and reel, and tumble, and then fall asleep in the mud.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Downward movement of unconsolidated mass of mud, sediment, and rock.
(Debris slide, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
Ceres' Type III features may involve a brief melting of some of the ice within the soil-like regolith, causing the material to flow like mud before refreezing.
(Landslides on Ceres Reflect Ice Content, NASA)
Pardieu! here is a paladin come over, with the Hampshire mud still sticking to his shoes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Based on a series of mud cracks at a location named "Old Soaker," the team already knew the area had intermittent drier periods.
(NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars, NASA)
He reached for it with both hands and stirred up the milky mud at the bottom.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
