Synonyms for mud
mʌdmud

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1. mud, claynoun

   water soaked soil; soft wet earth

   Synonyms:
   corpse, the Great Compromiser, remains, stiff, cadaver, clay

2. mudverb

   slanderous remarks or charges

   Synonyms:
   clay

3. mire, muck, mud, muck upverb

   soil with mud, muck, or mire

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

   Synonyms:
   entangle, spoil, bobble, bungle, bollocks, fluff, muck, bollix, mishandle, bollocks up, screw up, foul up, louse up, bodge, flub, grind to a halt, fumble, botch up, bog down, ball up, get stuck, mire, mess up, blow, bollix up, botch, manure, muck up, bumble, muff

4. mudverb

   plaster with mud

   Synonyms:
   muck up, muck, mire

Matched Categories

1. • Masonry
   • Plaster

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1. mudnoun

   Synonyms:
   mire

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1. mudnoun

   Synonyms:
   mire, ooze, muck, silt

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1. List of paraphrases for "mud":

   sludge, slurry, nai, muck, dirt, vase, silt, ooze, mire, mudslide, muddy, slime, sludges, lama, iml, clay, gutter

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How to use mud in a sentence?

1. Aryeh Shimron:

   The flooding of [the] tomb was caused by this earthquake which hit Jerusalem in [A.D.] 363, that soil and mud that flooded the tomb also buried the ossuaries.

2. Alan Marshall Beck:

   A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

3. Meghan Fitzgerald:

   Mud kitchens and art centers — these can make a huge difference, any place where kids can create and let their imaginations run wild are going to be the kinds of places they want to be.

4. Sepp Blatter:

   We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer. It has to stop here and now.

5. Rosilene Virgilio:

   There was a woman screaming, ‘Help! Get me out of here!’ But we couldn’t do anything; the water was gushing out, the mud was gushing out, our city unfortunately is finished.