MUD (mudded, mudding)

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Irregular inflected forms: mudded    , mudding   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mud mean? 

• MUD (noun)
  The noun MUD has 2 senses:

1. water soaked soil; soft wet earth

2. slanderous remarks or charges

  Familiarity information: MUD used as a noun is rare.

• MUD (verb)
  The verb MUD has 2 senses:

1. soil with mud, muck, or mire

2. plaster with mud

  Familiarity information: MUD used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Water soaked soil; soft wet earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

clay; mud

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)

Sense 2

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)

• MUD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soil with mud, muck, or mire

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

mire; muck; muck up; mud

Context example:

The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

The team also took core samples of mud from 1 to 2 meters below the seafloor and analyzed ancient pollen to determine the age of the samples.

(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)

"I don't know anything. I'll wait until I do before I try again, and meantime, 'sweep mud in the street' if I can't do better, that's honest, at least."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The left arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven places.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The marine biologists found that wherever there were clusters of mussels embedded in the mud around the base of the grass stems, the grass survived.

(Biodiversity in salt marshes builds climate resilience, NSF)

"And so you arise from the mud, Martin Eden," he said solemnly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A thin film of recent mud was left upon his skin.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the first step upon the cold surface, Buck’s feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was dark and raining, and I saw more fog and mud in a minute than I had seen in a year.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It's likely that the rocks in the area formed as layers of mud in ancient lakes - something Curiosity also found lower on Mount Sharp.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay Cache, NASA)

The floor was thick with mud where ruffians had sat down to drink or consult after wading in the marshes round their camp.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)