bemudv.
/bɪˈmʌd/ 1. transitive. To cover, bespatter, or befoul with mud.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with mud
mire?c1475
glar?a1500
bemirec1532
bemud1580
bemoila1610
immire1611
muddya1616
mud1632
muddify1739
slutch1745
belute1760
slush1807
slub1886
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Embouër, to bedirt, or bemud one.
1659 J. Arrowsmith Armilla Catechetica 52 Elephants..are wont before they drink to bemud the water.
1832 Fraser's Mag. 6 251 He often rides in swampy ways..and bemuds his friends.
2. figurative. To confuse, muddle.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > confuse, bewilder [verb (transitive)]
bewhapec1320
mara1350
blunder?a1400
mada1425
to turn a person's brainc1440
astonish1530
maskc1540
dare1547
bemud1599
bedazea1605
dizzy1604
bemist1609
muddify1647
lose1649
bafflea1657
bewildera1680
bother?1718
bemuse1734
muddlea1748
flurrya1757
muzz1786
muzzle1796
flusker1841
haze1858
bemuddle1862
jitter1932
giggle-
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 23 And so troubledly bemudded with griefe and care..my purer intellectuall faculties.
1863 R. Chambers Bk. of Days I. 124/2 Satan..first tried, by bemudding his thoughts, to divert him from the design of becoming a monk.
Derivatives
beˈmudded adj.
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1834 S. T. Coleridge Poet. Wks. I. i. 21 Dull sounds the Bard's bemudded lyre.
beˈmudding n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [noun] > muddiness > dirtying with mud
bemiring1600
bemudding1611
miring1641
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Enfangement, a bedurtying, bemyring, bemudding.
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