mud
US: /ˈməd/
UK: /mˈʌd/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
mud /mʌd/- danh từ
- bùn ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
- to fling mud at somebody: ném bùn vào ai; (nghĩa bóng) nói xấu ai, bôi nhọ ai
- to stick in the mud
- bảo thủ; chậm tiến, lạc hậu
- bùn ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
- ngoại động từ
- vấy bùn, trát bùn lên
- làm đục, khuấy đục
- nội động từ
- chui xuống bùn
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun[U] wet earth that is soft and sticky: The car wheels got stuck in the mud. + Your boots are covered in mud. + mud bricks / huts (= made of dried mud)
Idioms: fling, sling, etc. mud (at sb) to criticize sb or accuse sb of bad or shocking things in order to damage their reputation, especially in politics
See also -
more at CLEAR adj., NAME n.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
muck, ooze, slime, mire, clay, sludge, silt, dirt, US and Canadian gumbo or gombo:
The mud came up to my ankles.
Collocation
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
Concise dictionary
mudded|mudding|mudsmʌdnoun
+water soaked soil; soft wet earth
+slanderous remarks or charges
verb
+soil with mud, muck, or mire
+plaster with mud
