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Collocations for mud - noun

ADJECTIVE

deep
thick
soft, sticky, wet
dried, dry
footprints left in the hard dried mud
black, brown, red

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VERB + mud

be caked in, be caked with, be covered with
Her boots were caked in mud.
get/become bogged down in (esp. BrE), get stuck in
Several cars got bogged down in the mud.
turn (sth) into, turn (sth) to
The cars had turned the road into mud.
wallow in
pigs wallowing in the mud
spatter (sb/sth with)

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mud + VERB

ooze
Wet mud oozed up between their toes.
crack
The mud in the dried-up river bed had cracked.

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mud + NOUN

brick, floor, house, hut, wall
flats
puddle
hole, pit
slide
Flash floods and mud slides struck three coastal towns.
fight, wrestling
bath
pie
The kids were in the yard making mud pies.

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PREPOSITION

in the mud
She fell in the mud.
through the mud
We squelched through the mud.

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PHRASES

a layer of mud, a sea of mud

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