Concept cluster: Physical processes > Dirtying or Soiling
n
(obsolete) Liquid filth; mire.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal) To besmear; bedaub; bemire; smear all over with dirt.
v
(transitive) To encumber with a sticky substance; clog.
v
(transitive) To cover or defile with dirt.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To dirty; cover with dirt.
adj
(obsolete) drenched.
v
(transitive) To befoul with rain and mud.
v
(transitive, obsolete, UK dialectal) To befoul with ordure; bedirt.
v
(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To bedaub or defile.
v
(transitive) To bestrew with rubbish or things in disorder.
v
(transitive) To bespatter, as with mud.
v
(by extension) To soil or debase.
v
(transitive) To scribble over.
adj
Covered with or befouled with or as with excrement.
v
(transitive) To wet, besmear, or befoul with spittle or anything running from the mouth; cover in slobber; bespawl.
v
Alternative form of beslobber [(transitive) To wet, besmear, or befoul with spittle or anything running from the mouth; cover in slobber; bespawl.]
v
(transitive, figuratively) To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend.
v
(transitive, obsolete) Alternative spelling of bespawl [(transitive, obsolete) To daub, make foul, or soil (someone or something) with spawl or spittle.]
v
(intransitive) To wallow around or about; wallow all over.
v
(transitive) To welter all over; besmear by weltering.
v
(transitive) To wound all over; cover or afflict with wounds.
n
(astronomy) A large cloud of gas.
n
(obsolete) A bubble.
n
(archaic) A tempest.
v
Alternative form of clart [(transitive, now Scotland, Northern England) To daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc.; to dirty.]
adj
Full of clots, or clods.
n
A frothy mass of white liquid that is secreted onto plants by froghopper larvae and serves as a protective covering.
n
(computing, informal) A poorly managed data lake.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To flatter excessively or grossly.
n
(Northern England, Scotland) A dense mist or drizzle
v
To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.
n
(dialect) That which drowns.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To begrime; soil with mud; daub; smear.
adj
Alternative form of engouled [(heraldry) Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything.]
v
To spew saliva as froth.
v
To flow like goo or goop, to move in a slushy way.
v
(slang, transitive) To drip or slather; to apply a gooey substance to a surface.
v
(transitive) to smear with oil or grease.
v
(transitive) To wear away into a gully or gullies.
v
(obsolete) To smear; to anoint.
v
(Trinidad and Tobago) To smear a mixture of mud, dung and water by hand to make walls or floors.
v
(transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
v
(transitive) To apply Marmite to.
v
(intransitive) To sink into mud.
n
Slimy mud, sludge.
v
(intransitive, Internet) To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.
n
(informal) The volunteer helpers assisting the victims of the 2010/2011 floods in South East Queensland.
n
(figuratively) A very muddy area.
v
To become unusable or unreachable due to mud.
n
Participation in MUD games
n
A tool used in muddling, used to mash and mix.
n
A puddle of mud or muddy water.
n
(obsolete) Secretion, humour.
v
To make soft or muddy by trampling.
n
(now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
adj
Characterised by puddles or puddling
v
(archaic, intransitive) To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.
n
(medicine, colloquial) Clipping of regurgitation. [The act of regurgitating.]
v
(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
n
A batch of things that go together.
v
Alternative form of schmear [To spread something, often a bagel spread.]
v
Alternative form of schmear [To spread something, often a bagel spread.]
v
Alternative form of schmear [To spread something, often a bagel spread.]
v
(transitive) To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
n
The act of spreading thickly.
v
(transitive) To coat with slime.
n
(now chiefly dialectal, rare) Fine mud; silt; slake.
n
(uncountable) Semi-solid like substance; goo, paste, mud, pulp.
n
(colloquial, UK, Yorkshire) wet mud
n
Watery unappetizing food; gruel.
adj
Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
adj
Sloppy; sounding or feeling like the slurping of liquid.
v
To make a slurry (of some material).
n
A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
v
(transitive, obsolete, dialect, UK, Scotland) To suffocate or smother.
n
The act of something being smudged.
n
(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) drizzle, light rain
adj
(obsolete) Boiled.
n
One who sops.
v
(intransitive, slang, derogatory, sometimes reclaimed) To ramble in excessive detail, as someone with Asperger's syndrome would stereotypically do.
n
Spit-up or drool of an infant.
adj
Like spittle; slimy.
adj
Wet and muddy; full of dirty water.
n
(archaic) soft wet ground; mud or slush
v
(intransitive, rare) To engage in a spree.
adj
(obsolete) Straggling; messy.
v
To foment with such a cloth or sponge.
v
(figuratively) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
n
A small particle of sweat and grime.
v
(archaic, idiomatic) To run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter.
v
To fling dust or similar.
n
A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
v
To soak hides in wooze.

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