verb
- Dirty with mud.
- synonyms: muddy up
- Cause to become muddy.
- usage: "These data would have muddied the prediction"
- Make turbid.
- usage: "muddy the water"
adjective
- Of soil. ( soft and watery)
- usage: "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"
- Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck.
- usage: "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
- synonyms: mucky
- Of color. ( discolored by impurities; not bright and clear)
- usage: "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"
- Of liquids. ( clouded as with sediment)
- usage: "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
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