Definitions for mud

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mud mud

Spelling: [muhd]

IPA: /mʌd/

Mud is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in mud (dmu).

Definitions for mud

noun

1. wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
2. Informal. scandalous or malicious assertions or information:
3. Slang. brewed coffee, especially when strong or bitter.
4. a mixture of chemicals and other substances pumped into a drilling rig chiefly as a lubricant for the bit and shaft.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover, smear, or spatter with mud:
2. to stir up the mud or sediment in:

verb (used without object)

1. to hide in or burrow into mud.

Origin of mud

1300-50; Middle English mudde, mode Middle Low German mudde. Cf. mother²

Examples for mud

They described him as clad in black, his face smeared with mud.

I was up to my middle in mud, at times, but the water was not very deep.

He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.

Knee deep in mud, sweat mixing with rain, they forced the Land Rover through the jungle.

In a dim backroom of a mud hut in Save, 82-year-old Teresa Nyirabutunda sits propped upright in bed by her daughter, Francine.

Do you expect me to pick up everything you've thrown in the mud and feel grateful?

Then she added, in a lower tone, "'Kuse me fo' throwin' mud on yo' coat."

We were confined in a sort of a prison, that was covered with mud.

Sheets of torrential rains pouring down over the Land Rover sent its four wheels plunging into the mud.

At length we reached the firm ground, covered with mud and chilled with cold.