Collocations for mud - noun

deep | glutinous, thick | hard | liquid, soft, sticky, wet | dried, dry
footprints left in the hard dried mud

black, brown, grey, red

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)

ooze
Wet mud oozed up between their toes.

crack
The mud in the dried-up river bed had cracked.

brick, floor, house, hut | flats

in the ~
She fell in the mud.

through the ~
We squelched through the mud.

a layer of mud, a sea of mud