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Muck

abbreviation of Amuck.

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Begrime 76% connected

To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.

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Bemire 76% connected

To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

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Colly 76% connected

The black grime or soot of coal.

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Dejection 76% connected

A casting down; depression.

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Dirty 76% connected

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Faeces 76% connected

Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.

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Feces 76% connected

dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces.

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Grime 76% connected

Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

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Matter 76% connected

That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of concep…

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Ordure 76% connected

Dung; excrement; faeces.

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Scatter 76% connected

To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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Soil 76% connected

To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…

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Spread 76% connected

of Spread

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Stool 76% connected

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Withdraw 76% connected

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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Narrower term 2

Chip 76% connected

To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

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Coprolite 76% connected

A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

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Derivationally related 4

Slime 74% connected

Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.

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Slime 74% connected

Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.

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Slimy 74% connected

Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding i…

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Slimy 74% connected

Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding i…

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Synonym 7

Dung 92% connected

of Ding

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Manure 92% connected

To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mire 92% connected

An ant.

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Mud 92% connected

Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ooze 92% connected

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slime 92% connected

Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sludge 92% connected

Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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