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adjective

Muddy adj. (compar. muddier; superl. muddiest)

Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.

Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure. "This muddy vesture of decay."

Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague. "Cold hearts and muddy understandings." "Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled."

Not clear or bright.

verb

Muddy v. t. (past & past part. muddied; pres. part. muddying)

To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.

(Fig.): To cloud; to make dull or heavy; to confuse.

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Etymology of 'Muddy'

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... short, terminate the gardens. The violence everywhere done to nature repels and wearies us despite ourselves. The abundance of water, forced up and gathered together from all parts, is rendered green, thick, muddy; it disseminates humidity, unhealthy and evident; and an odour still more so. I might never finish upon the monstrous defects of a palace so immense and so immensely dear, with its accompaniments, which are ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... Mme. de la Garde were standing out in the Boulevard when Melmoth raised his arm. A drizzling rain was falling, the streets were muddy, the air was close, there was thick darkness overhead; but in a moment, as the arm was outstretched, Paris was filled with sunlight; it was high noon on a bright July day. The trees were covered with leaves; a ...

— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne

... I 540:6 the Lord do all these things;" but the prophet referred to divine law as stirring up the belief in evil to its utmost, when bringing it to the surface and re- 540:9 ducing it to its common denominator, nothingness. The muddy river-bed must be stirred in order to purify the stream. In moral chemicalization, when the symptoms 540:12 of evil, illusion, are aggravated, we may think in our igno- rance that the Lord hath wrought an evil; but we ought to know ...

— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy

... before the wind, soon left the Indians on the northern bank far behind, and once more they were at peace with the wilderness. The river was now very beautiful. It had not yet taken on the muddy tint characteristic of its lower reaches, the high and sloping banks were covered with beautiful forest, and coming from north and south they saw the mouths of creeks and rivers pouring the waters of great regions ...

— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler

... curiosity as they used to do. Huge quarters occupy the right of the Hoang Ho, two kilometres wide. This Hoang Ho is the yellow river, the famous yellow river, which, after a course of four thousand four hundred kilometres, pours its muddy waters into ...

— The Adventures of a Special Correspondent • Jules Verne

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