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单词 mud
释义 mud
I. \ˈməd\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English mode, mudde, probably from Middle Low German, thick mud; akin to Middle High German mot mud, morass, Swedish modd dirty snow, Old English mōs bog, swamp — more at moss
1. : a slimy sticky fluid-to-plastic mixture of finely divided particles of solid material and water
 < a drizzling rain … turned the dust of the roads into mud — George Borrow >
2.
 a. : the worst part of a thing : dregs
  < the mud of the earth … remains bespattering his spirit — Havelock Ellis >
 b. : the lowest place : depths
  < that you should have been dragged down into the mud — Christopher Isherwood >
3. : abusive and malicious remarks or charges
 < a sorely bedeviled body of men who have had much mud thrown at and around them — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude >
4. : a geological deposit having the physical character of mud
 < sands and muds … have been transformed by the stresses of millions of years into white marble — American Guide Series: Maryland >
5. : drilling fluid
6. : anathema II 2b — used especially in the phrase name is mud
 < don't know what his right name is … but his name's mud with me — S.V.Benét >
7. slang : opium
II. verb
(mudded ; mudded ; mudding ; muds)
transitive verb
1. : to make muddy or turbid
 < the dog scampered through the brook, mudding it >
2. : to spread or plaster with mud
 < these tanks were mudded up for camouflage — Infantry Journal >
 < choose deliberately the path well-mudded — Roland Mathias >
 < mud the chinks in his cabin >
3. : to introduce mud into; especially : to introduce artificial muds containing a heavy constituent (as barite) into (an oil well) to seal against natural gas or water during drilling — often used with off
intransitive verb
: to burrow or hide in mud
 < a place where the eels mud >
III.
variant of muid
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