Meaning

8 senses
  1. To form a puddle.

    make into a puddle

  2. To play or splash in a puddle.

    wade or dabble in a puddle

  3. Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.

  4. To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.

  5. To line a canal with puddle (clay).

  6. To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.

  7. To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.

  8. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).

    make a puddle by splashing water

Examples

56 sentences
  1. He jumped across the puddle.

    Він перестрибнув через калюжу. — deniko

    ruОн перепрыгнул через лужу. — shanghainese

    deEr sprang über die Pfütze. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom jumped across the mud puddle.

    ruТом перепрыгнул через грязную лужу. — marafon

    deTom sprang über die Schlammpfütze. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom stepped in a puddle of water.

    ruТом наступил в лужу. — marafon

  4. Be careful not to step in the mud puddle.

    ruОсторожно, не наступи в грязную лужу. — Selena777

  5. After the rain, there were puddles on the road.

    ruПосле дождя на дороге были лужи. — marafon

Translations

3 languages

Origin

From Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *

From Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *puddaz (compare Low German Pudel (“puddle”), Middle High German podel (“quagmire, mudhole”), Hunsrik Puttel, dialectal German Pfudel (“puddle”), German pudeln (“to splash about”)), ultimately imitative.

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Forms

puddles, puddling, puddled, puddled
Base formpuddle · to puddle
3rd person singularpuddles
Present participlepuddling
Past simplepuddled
Past participlepuddled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypuddle
he, she, itpuddles

Past simpleLesson

all personspuddled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave puddled
he, she, ithas puddled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill puddle

Synonyms

15 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedpuddler
Derivedpuddle up

See also

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