muddy

mud·dy

M0464400 (mŭd′ē)adj. mud·di·er, mud·di·est 1. Full of or covered with mud.2. a. Not bright or pure: a muddy color.b. Not clear; cloudy, as with sediment: muddy coffee.3. Lacking luster; dull: a muddy complexion.4. Confused or vague: muddy thinking.tr.v. mud·died, mud·dy·ing, mud·dies 1. To make dirty or muddy.2. To make dull or cloudy.3. To make obscure or confused.

mud′di·ly adv.mud′di·ness n.

muddy

(ˈmʌdɪ) adj, -dier or -diest1. covered or filled with mud2. not clear or bright: muddy colours. 3. cloudy: a muddy liquid. 4. (esp of thoughts) confused or vaguevb, -dies, -dying or -diedto become or cause to become muddy ˈmuddily adv ˈmuddiness n

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adj. -di•er, -di•est, adj. 1. abounding in or covered with mud. 2. not clear or pure: muddy colors. 3. dull, as the complexion. 4. obscure or vague, as thought or expression. v.t. 5. to make muddy. 6. to make turbid. 7. to cause to be confused or obscure. [1375–1425] mud′di•ly, adv. mud′di•ness, n.

muddy

Past participle: muddied
Gerund: muddying

Imperative
muddy
muddy

Present
I muddy
you muddy
he/she/it muddies
we muddy
you muddy
they muddy

Preterite
I muddied
you muddied
he/she/it muddied
we muddied
you muddied
they muddied

Present Continuous
I am muddying
you are muddying
he/she/it is muddying
we are muddying
you are muddying
they are muddying

Present Perfect
I have muddied
you have muddied
he/she/it has muddied
we have muddied
you have muddied
they have muddied

Past Continuous
I was muddying
you were muddying
he/she/it was muddying
we were muddying
you were muddying
they were muddying

Past Perfect
I had muddied
you had muddied
he/she/it had muddied
we had muddied
you had muddied
they had muddied

Future
I will muddy
you will muddy
he/she/it will muddy
we will muddy
you will muddy
they will muddy

Future Perfect
I will have muddied
you will have muddied
he/she/it will have muddied
we will have muddied
you will have muddied
they will have muddied

Future Continuous
I will be muddying
you will be muddying
he/she/it will be muddying
we will be muddying
you will be muddying
they will be muddying

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been muddying
you have been muddying
he/she/it has been muddying
we have been muddying
you have been muddying
they have been muddying

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been muddying
you will have been muddying
he/she/it will have been muddying
we will have been muddying
you will have been muddying
they will have been muddying

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been muddying
you had been muddying
he/she/it had been muddying
we had been muddying
you had been muddying
they had been muddying

Conditional
I would muddy
you would muddy
he/she/it would muddy
we would muddy
you would muddy
they would muddy

Past Conditional
I would have muddied
you would have muddied
he/she/it would have muddied
we would have muddied
you would have muddied
they would have muddied

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	muddy - dirty with mudmuddy upbegrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil - make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
	2.	muddy - cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction"obnubilate, obscure, blur, confuse - make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
	3.	muddy - make turbid; "muddy the water"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
Adj.	1.	muddy - (of soil) soft and watery; "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"boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged, squashy, sloppywet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"
	2.	muddy - dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"muckydirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
	3.	muddy - (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "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"muddied, dingy, dirtyimpure - combined with extraneous elements
	4.	muddy - (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"mirky, murky, turbid, cloudyopaque - not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"

muddy

adjective1. boggy, swampy, marshy, miry, quaggy a muddy track2. dirty, soiled, grimy, mucky, mud-caked, bespattered, skanky (slang), clarty (Scot. & Northern English dialect) muddy boots3. dull, flat, blurred, unclear, smoky, washed-out, dingy, lustreless The paper has turned a muddy colour.4. cloudy, dirty, foul, opaque, impure, turbid He was up to his armpits in muddy water.5. confused, vague, unclear, muddled, fuzzy, woolly, hazy, indistinct Such muddy thinking is typical of those who have always had it easy.verb1. smear, soil, dirty, smirch, begrime, bespatter The clothes he was wearing were all muddied.2. confuse, cloud, obscure, blur, mix up, obfuscate, befog, make unclear It's difficult enough without muddying the issue with religion.

muddy

adjective1. Covered or soiled with mud:miry.2. Having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended:cloudy, murky, roiled, roily, turbid.3. Lacking vividness in color:dim, drab, dull, flat, murky.verbTo soil with mud:bemire, mire, muck (up), mud, slush.

Translations

泥泞的把...弄脏

mud

(mad) noun wet soft earth. 泥浆ˈmuddy adjective covered with or containing mud. muddy boots/water.泥泞的 verb to make muddy. You've muddied the floor!把...弄脏ˈmudflat noun (often in plural) an area of muddy seaside land which is covered with water at high tide. 泥滩ˈmudguard noun a shield or guard over the wheel of a car, bicycle etc to keep mud, rainwater etc from splashing upwards. （车子的）挡泥板 ˈmudskipper noun a small fish found in shallow coastal waters, able to jump about and climb low rocks to look for food. 弹涂鱼，跳跳鱼

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muddy the waters

To introduce something, typically information, to an issue or situation that makes it less clear or more confusing. Don't muddy the waters with unrelated issues—we need to focus on this one problem. The last witness's testimony has muddied the waters, and most likely doubt has entered the minds of the jury members.See also: muddy, water

muddy the water(s)

To introduce something, typically information, to an issue or situation that makes it less clear or more confusing. Don't muddy the waters with unrelated issues—we need to focus on this one problem. The last witness's testimony has really muddied the water for the prosecution's case against the defendant.See also: muddy

muddy up

1. To cover, fill, or contaminate something with mud. A noun or pronoun can be used between "muddy" and "up." I just got the Jeep washed, and you went and muddied it up offroading in the mountains! Take your boots off so you don't muddy up my carpets! They all went into the wading pool and muddied up the water.2. To dredge up the mud at the bottom of a lake, pond, river, etc. A noun or pronoun can be used between "muddy" and "up." The lake is so perfectly tranquil and still—don't ruin that by traipsing in and muddying it up! We could have found your ring in this pond if you hand't muddied the water up before we started looking!3. To render something awkward, confusing, and disorderly; to obscure or obfuscate something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "muddy" and "up"; often used in passive constructions. The introduction of new tariffs is likely to further muddy up the already complicated relationship between the two countries. They muddied the contract up with all sorts of misleading, cryptic language. Our roles within the team have become so muddied up that we've largely given up the idea of job titles.See also: muddy, up

muddy something up

Lit. 1. to make water muddy; to stir up the mud in water, as at the bottom of a pond or river. Don't muddy the water up. It will clog our filters. Don't muddy up the water. 2. Fig. to make something unclear. You have really muddied this issue up. I thought I understood it. You sure muddied up this issue.See also: muddy, up

muddy the water

Fig. to make something less clear; to make matters confusing; to create difficulty where there was none before. Things were going along quite smoothly until you came along and muddied the water. The events of the past month have muddied the water as far as our proposed joint venture is concerned.See also: muddy, water

muddy the waters

Confuse the issue, as in Bringing up one irrelevant fact after another, he succeeded in muddying the waters. This metaphoric expression, alluding to making a pond or stream turbid by stirring up mud from the bottom, was first recorded in 1837. See also: muddy, water

muddy the waters

If someone or something muddies the waters, they make a situation or an issue more confusing and complicated. The society has been accused of trying to muddy the waters through its poll which has been described as `misleading'. This ruling seems only to have muddied the waters and we are seeking clarification.See also: muddy, water

muddy the waters

make an issue or a situation more confusing and harder to understand by introducing complications. The figurative use of muddy to mean ‘make something hard to perceive or understand’ occurs in Shakespeare ; muddy the waters dates from the mid 19th century.See also: muddy, water

muddy the ˈwaters

(disapproving) make something which seemed clear and easy to understand before seem much less clear now: Recent research findings have muddied the waters considerably — nuclear scientists are having to re-examine all their existing theories. ♢ They’re just muddying the waters with all this new information.See also: muddy, water

muddy the waters, to

To confuse the issue. This analogy to stirring up the mud from the bottom of a clear pond, lake, or stream dates from the early nineteenth century. The OED quotes Blackwell’s Magazine (1837): “He . . . began to muddy the water.” See also: muddy

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adj boggy

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adj dirty

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adj dull

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adj cloudy

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adj confused

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verb smear

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verb confuse

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adj covered or soiled with mud

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adj having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended

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adj lacking vividness in color

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verb to soil with mud

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verb dirty with mud

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verb cause to become muddy

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verb make turbid

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adj (of soil) soft and watery

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adj dirty and messy

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adj (of color) discolored by impurities

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adj (of liquids) clouded as with sediment

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