mud

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However, as the mud is a depletable resource, they do some sort of recycling with it.

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  1. noun Wet, sticky, soft earth, as on the banks of a river.
  2. noun Slang Wet plaster, mortar, or cement.
  3. noun Slanderous or defamatory charges or comments: slinging mud at his opponent.

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  • As I had already seen, trees fallen across the path formed a breast-high wall which had to be climbed over: flooded rivers, breast and neck deep, had to be crossed, the mud was awful, and nothing but villages eight or ten miles apart. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
  • Chained by the foot to a wheel and lying in the mud was a Knight of the Order. —  VANCE MOORE
  • I wish the thread on my son would just go away, so many people who didn't even know him or the real story behind his murder think dragging a dead man through the mud is the thing to do.
  • It's like trying to convince a pig that wrestling in the mud is a bad time; what a pig considers to be fun is not necessarily what a human feels is fun, and thus its like two ships passing in the night. —  Techdirt
  • However, as the mud is a depletable resource, they do some sort of recycling with it. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English mudde, probably from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch modde.

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  1. from Middle English mud, mod, mudde, from Middle Low German mudde, Low German mudde, mod = Swedish modd, mud, mire; cf. Middle High German mot, German mott, peat (see moat). Hence ult. mother, q. v.
  2. from mud, n.
 

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