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muddy in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- (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 muddy quaggy sloppy sloughy soggy squashy swampy waterlogged
- (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
"a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
cloudy muddy mirky murky turbid
- (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"
dirty dingy muddied muddy
- dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
"muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
mucky muddy
verb- make turbid
"muddy the water"
muddy
- cause to become muddy
"These data would have muddied the prediction"
muddy
- dirty with mud
muddy muddy up
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