barrar

To smear or coat something with mud (barro) — a less common synonym of embarrar — and, in an older sense, to block off a place with bars or a barrier. Regional and not very frequent in modern speech.

• Los niños se barraron las botas jugando en el patio. — The kids caked their boots in mud playing in the yard.
• Barraron la pared para protegerla de la humedad. — They coated the wall in mud to protect it from moisture.
• El camino quedó barrado tras la tormenta. — The road was left caked in mud after the storm.

Embarrar is the far more common everyday word for "to get muddy/smear with mud" — barrar is a rarer synonym a learner is unlikely to need actively, though it may show up in reading.

Often confused with embarrar.