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mud·dy

(mŭd′ē)

adj. mud·di·er, mud·di·est

1. Full of or covered with mud.

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.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

muddy

(ˈmʌdɪ)

adj, -dier or -diest

1. covered or filled with mud

2. not clear or bright: muddy colours.

3. cloudy: a muddy liquid.

4. (esp of thoughts) confused or vague

vb, -dies, -dying or -died

to become or cause to become muddy

ˈmuddily adv

ˈmuddiness n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

mud•dy

(ˈmʌd i)

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

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

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Verb	1.	muddy - dirty with mud muddy up begrime, 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, sloppy wet - 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" mucky dirty, 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, dirty impure - combined with extraneous elements
	4.	muddy - (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters" mirky, murky, turbid, cloudy opaque - not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"

muddy

adjective

1. boggy, swampy, marshy, miry, quaggy a muddy track

2. dirty, soiled, grimy, mucky, mud-caked, bespattered, skanky (slang), clarty (Scot. & Northern English dialect) muddy boots

3. 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.

verb

1. 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.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

muddy

adjective

1. 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.

verb

To soil with mud:

bemire, mire, muck (up), mud, slush.

Translations

مُوَحِلٌموحِليُوَسِّخ، يوحِل

zablácenýzablátitzkalitbahnitýblátivý

mudretmudre

matschig schlammig verschmutzen

θολώνω λασπωμένος

fangoso llenar de barro lleno de barro turbio barroso

mutainen

boueux salir

blatan

besározsáros

óhreinkaóhreinn, skítugur, forugur

fangoso infangare infangato torbido confondere

泥だらけの

질척질척한

modderig

gjøre grumset søle til sølete tilsølet

zabłocony

enlameado

грязный

skaliťzablatenýzablatiť

blatenkalen

lerig

เต็มไปด้วยโคลน

çamurluçamurlatmak

vấy bùn

泥泞的把...弄脏

muddy

[ˈmʌdɪ]

A. ADJ (muddier (compar) (muddiest (superl)))

1. (= covered in mud) [clothes, hands, floor, carpet, track, field] → lleno de barro, embarrado; [water, stream] → turbio

2. (= dull) [brown, green] → sucio; [skin, complexion] → terroso

3. (= confused) [ideas, thinking] → confuso, poco claro

B. VT

1. (= make dirty) [+ floor, carpet] → llenar de barro; [+ hands, dress] → manchar de barro; [+ water, stream] → enturbiar

2. (= make confused) to muddy the issue → confundir el tema or la cuestión, enredar las cosas
to muddy the waters → confundir el tema or la cuestión, enredar las cosas

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

muddy

[ˈmʌdi]

adj → boueux/euse

vt [+ shoes, boots, floor] → couvrir de bouemud flap n [car] → pare-boue m inv; [truck] → bavette fmud flats npl → laisse f, laisse f de vase

muddy

adj (+er)

floor, shoes, hands etc → schmutzig, schlammbeschmiert; road, ground etc → schlammig, matschig; liquid → schlammig, trübe; to get somebody/oneself/something muddy → jdn/sich/etw schmutzig machen or mit Schlamm beschmieren; I’m all muddy → ich bin ganz voll Schlamm

(fig) complexion → gräulich schimmernd; style → verworren

vt → schmutzig machen, mit Schlamm beschmieren; water, river → verschlammen; (fig: = confuse) situation, issue → verwirren, in Verwirrung bringen; his explanation only helped to muddy the waters → durch seine Erklärung ist die Sache nur noch verworrener geworden

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

muddy

[ˈmʌdɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (road, ground, field) → fangoso/a; (hands) → coperto/a di fango; (clothes, shoes) → infangato/a; (liquid) → torbido/a; (complexion) → smorto/a, terreo/a

mud

(mad) noun

wet soft earth.

ˈmuddy adjective

covered with or containing mud. muddy boots/water.

verb

to make muddy. You've muddied the floor!

ˈmudflat noun

(often in plural) an area of muddy seaside land which is covered with water at high tide.

ˈmudguard noun

a shield or guard over the wheel of a car, bicycle etc to keep mud, rainwater etc from splashing upwards.

ˈmudskipper noun

a small fish found in shallow coastal waters, able to jump about and climb low rocks to look for food.

muddy

→ مُوَحِلٌ zablácený mudret matschig λασπωμένος embarrado mutainen boueux blatan fangoso 泥だらけの 질척질척한 modderig sølete zabłocony enlameado грязный lerig เต็มไปด้วยโคลน çamurlu vấy bùn 泥泞的

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