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Adjective: muddy (muddier,muddiest)  múdee
  1. (of soil) soft and watery
    "muddy barnyard"
    - boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged, squelchy
     
  2. Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
    "muddy boots"
    - mucky
     
  3. (of colour) discoloured by impurities; not bright and clear
    "a muddy white"; "muddy colours"
    - dirty, dingy, muddied
     
  4. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
    "muddy coffee"
    - cloudy, mirky [archaic], murky, turbid
Verb: muddy  múdee
  1. Dirty with mud
    - muddy up
     
  2. Cause to become muddy
    "These data would have muddied the prediction"
     
  3. Make turbid
    "muddy the water"

Derived forms: muddiest, muddying, muddied, muddies, muddier

See also: dirty, impure, mud, muddiness, opaque, soiled, unclean, wet

Type of: alter, begrime, bemire [archaic], blur, change, colly [archaic], confuse, dirty, grime, modify, obnubilate, obscure, soil

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