PUDDLE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for PUDDLE?

Need another word that means the same as “puddle”? Find 19 synonyms and 30 related words for “puddle” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Puddle” are: pool, spill, splash, make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee, pee-pee, piddle, piss, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee, wee-wee, muddle, addle

Puddle as a Noun

Definitions of "Puddle" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “puddle” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid.
• Something resembling a pool of liquid.
• Clay and sand mixed with water and used as a watertight covering for embankments.
• A mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry.
• A circular patch of disturbed water made by the blade of an oar at each stroke.
• A small pool of liquid, especially of rainwater on the ground.

Synonyms of "Puddle" as a noun (3 Words)

pool	A swimming pool. The body lay in a pool of blood.
spill	An instance of a liquid spilling or being spilt. He had a nasty spill on the ice.
splash	The act of splashing a liquid substance on a surface. He made a great splash and then disappeared.

Usage Examples of "Puddle" as a noun

• There were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain.
• Splashing through deep puddles.
• A little puddle of light.
• His chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines.

Puddle as a Verb

Definitions of "Puddle" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “puddle” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Knead (clay and sand) into puddle.
• Work (mixed water and clay) to separate gold or opal.
• Work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud.
• Dip into mud before planting.
• Eliminate urine.
• Make into a puddle.
• Line (a hole) with puddle.
• Subject to puddling or form by puddling.
• Make a puddle by splashing water.
• Stir (molten iron) with iron oxide in a furnace, to produce wrought iron by oxidizing carbon.
• Dabble or wallow in mud or shallow water.
• Mix up or confuse.
• Mess around, as in a liquid or paste.
• Wet or cover (a surface) with water, especially rainwater.
• Wade or dabble in a puddle.
• (of liquid) form a small pool.

Synonyms of "Puddle" as a verb (16 Words)

addle	Mix up or confuse. Being in love must have addled your brain.
make	Make by shaping or bringing together constituents. Make a stir.
make water	Engage in.
micturate	Eliminate urine. She became unable to go out for more than about ten minutes without having to micturate.
muddle	Busy oneself in an aimless or ineffective way. He muddled the issues.
pass water	Eliminate from the body.
pee-pee	Eliminate urine.
piddle	Eliminate urine.
relieve oneself	Relieve oneself of troubling information.
spend a penny	Pay out.
take a leak	Require as useful, just, or proper.
urinate	Pass after the manner of urine. The sick men urinated blood.
wee	Eliminate urine.
wee-wee	Eliminate urine.

Usage Examples of "Puddle" as a verb

• Puddled mire.
• The cobbles under our feet were wet and puddled.
• Rivulets of water coursed down the panes, puddling on the sill.
• My father helped puddle the iron that has braced this city's rising towers.
• Puddle iron.
• He dug and puddled a large pond.
• Puddle young plants.
• Children are playing and puddling about in the dirt.
• The ducks and geese puddled in the backyard.
• Open-hearth steelmaking eventually eliminated puddling altogether.

Associations of "Puddle" (30 Words)

backwater	A place or situation in which no development or progress is taking place. The country is an economic backwater.
bathing	Immersing the body in water or sunshine.
bog	Cause to slow down or get stuck. The island is a wilderness of bog and loch.
brook	A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river. The Lake District boasts lovely lakes and babbling brooks.
coastal	Of or relating to a coast. The Atlantic coastal plain.
creek	A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river. A sandy beach in a sheltered creek.
gully	A fielder at gully. He was caught in the gully by Jones.
lagoon	A stretch of salt water separated from the sea by a low sandbank or coral reef.
lake	A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land. The EU wine lake.
lamprey	Primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue.
loch	A lake. Loch Lomond.
marshy	Soft and watery. A marshy coastline.
muddy	Cause to become muddy. The original colours were blurred into muddy pink and yellow.
narrow	A narrow channel connecting two larger areas of water. A narrow scrutiny.
pond	Hold back or dam up flowing water or another liquid to form a pond. He s relatively unknown on this side of the pond.
pool	Join or form a pool of people. The body lay in a pool of blood.
riparian	Relating to or situated on the banks of a river. All the riparian states must sign an agreement.
river	A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea a lake or another river. The river was navigable for 50 miles.
sea	Used to refer to waves as opposed to calm sea. Heavy seas.
soggy	Wet and soft. We squelched through the soggy ground.
stagnant	(of a body of water or the atmosphere of a confined space) having no current or flow and often having an unpleasant smell as a consequence. A stagnant ditch.
stream	The act of flowing or streaming continuous progression. A perfect trout stream.
swampy	Soft and watery. Swampy bayous.
swim	An act or period of swimming. My brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne.
swimmer	A trained athlete who participates in swimming meets. Caribou are good swimmers.
swimming	The act of swimming. Swimming eyes.
tarn	A small mountain lake. Malham Tarn.
vale	A valley (used in place names or as a poetic term. The Vale of Glamorgan.
valley	A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river. The valley floor.
wet	Cause to become wet. The baby was wet and needed changing.