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[ muhd -ee ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈmʌd i / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective, mud·di·er, mud·di·est. abounding in or covered with mud.
not clear or pure: muddy colors.
cloudy with sediment: muddy coffee.
dull, as the complexion.
not clear mentally.
obscure or vague, as thought, expression, or literary style.
Horse Racing . denoting the condition of a track after a heavy, continuous rainfall has ceased and been completely absorbed into the surface, leaving it the consistency of thick mud.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used with object), mud·died, mud·dy·ing. to make muddy; soil with mud.
to make turbid.
to cause to be confused or obscure.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used without object), mud·died, mud·dy·ing. Origin of muddy First recorded in 1375–1425, muddy is from the late Middle English word muddi. See mud, -y1
OTHER WORDS FROM muddy mud·di·ly, adverb mud·di·ness, noun un·mud·died, adjective un·mud·dy, adjective Words nearby muddy muddle along, muddlehead, muddleheaded, muddler, muddle through, muddy , muddy the waters, mud eel, Mudéjar, mudeye, mudfat
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Example sentences from the Web for muddy Still, not knowing exactly who heard what — with none of the sources on the record — muddies the picture.
Did Trump call US war dead “losers” and “suckers”? The controversy, explained. | Alex Ward| September 4, 2020| Vox
How the various members of the movement define that threat is where things get muddy .
How Trump And COVID-19 Have Reshaped The Modern Militia Movement | Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux| September 4, 2020| FiveThirtyEight
That could give them a level of midfield control to muddy up this game when needs be.
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Instead, we’re in the muddy middle, faced with choices that seem at once crucial and impossible, simple and massively complicated.
Every Decision Is A Risk. Every Risk Is A Decision. | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com)| July 21, 2020| FiveThirtyEight
In late April or early May 1955, Chuck approached Muddy Waters about recording, and Muddy sent him to Leonard Chess.
How Rock and Roll Killed Jim Crow | Dennis McNally| October 26, 2014| DAILY BEAST
To actually get out into a muddy field for a change and have some bombs go off certainly beat sitting around a dining room table.
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When Muddy got the message, he ran to a phone and called his boss.
The Stacks: How Leonard Chess Helped Make Muddy Waters | Alex Belth| August 2, 2014| DAILY BEAST
But these songs by Muddy —no one had ever made commercial records like this.
The Stacks: How Leonard Chess Helped Make Muddy Waters | Alex Belth| August 2, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Muddy came in week after week to ask when it would hit stores.
The Stacks: How Leonard Chess Helped Make Muddy Waters | Alex Belth| August 2, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Have been on muddy water ever since we started out at Athabasca Landing.
Young Alaskans in the Far North | Emerson Hough
The buffaloes generally keep to the pools and muddy places, where they lie wallowing or basking in the warm mud for hours.
The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling
He shook a phial until the sediment at the bottom turned the liquid to a muddy purple as seen against the light.
Left Half Harmon | Ralph Henry Barbour
It is turbulent and muddy ; hard to pass and masterful of mood: noisy and of brief continuance.
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus | Epictetus
Water had to be hauled for miles, and it was muddy and salty, at that.
The Prairie Wife | Arthur Stringer
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British Dictionary definitions for muddy adjective -dier or -diest covered or filled with mud
not clear or bright muddy colours
cloudy a muddy liquid
(esp of thoughts) confused or vague
verb -dies , -dying or -died to become or cause to become muddy
Derived forms of muddy muddily , adverb muddiness , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to muddy flat, swampy, soggy, marshy, dull, gloomy, dirty, sloppy, filthy, sodden, addled, confused, foul, black, obscure, bespattered, soiled, blurred, bemired, caked