muddy

Plural: muddies

Verb

Verb Forms: muddied, muddying, muddies

• To make or become dirty with mud; to confuse.
• dirty with mud
• cause to become muddy
• make turbid
  • "muddy the water"
• To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
• To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
• To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
• To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
• To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
• To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
• To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
• To cause or permit (someone or something) to become stuck in mud; to mire.
• Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
• Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
• To become contaminated or impure.

Adjective Satellite

• (of soil) soft and watery
  • "muddy barnyard"
• dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
  • "muddy boots"
• (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; is often used in combination
  • "muddy colors"
• (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
  • "muddy coffee"

Adj

• Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
• Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
• Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
• Soiled with feces.
• Of an animal or plant: growing or living in mud.
• Dirty, filthy.
• Not clear.
• Not clear.
• Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
• Not clear.
• Of an image: blurry or dim.
• Not clear.
• Of light: cloudy, opaque.
• Not clear.
• Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
• Not clear.
• Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
• Not clear.
• Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
• Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
• Of a person or their facial expression: angry, sad, or sulky.
• Slightly drunk; tipsy.

Noun

• The edible mud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata).

Adjective

• Covered or filled with mud; unclear or confused.

Examples

• He slogged across the muddy field.
• He tends to muddy the game by playing short words, preventing big openings for his opponent.
• If you muddy your shoes don’t wear them inside.
• Take off your muddy boots before you come inside.
• The addition of the second batch of paint muddied the bright colours to a dull and washed look.
• The board became muddy with difficult letter combinations, challenging both Scrabble players.
• The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject.
• The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the struggle between the alligator and the wild boar.
• The television picture is decent, but the sound is muddy.

Synonyms

boggy, cloudy, dingy, dirty, marshy, mirky, miry, mucky, muddied, muddy up, murky, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, turbid, waterlogged, Adrian Quist, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, MWI, Mozart and Liszt, Oliver, Oliver Twist, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bladdered, bland, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, clatchy, clobbered, cocked, cockeyed, colourless, corned, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, dim, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, dull, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, faint, fap, feeling no pain, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kisky, lackluster, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, leaden, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, muddled, muddy, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, on the ran tan, oozy, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sad, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sober, sodden, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, uncolorful, unholiday, wan, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

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