| 单词 | muddy |
| 释义 | muddy (once / 680 pages) adjv Muddy is a verb that means to make dirty with mud. You might muddy up your mom's white shag rug if you don't take off your dirty hiking boots before you walk inside. The meaning of muddy is easy to remember: just look at the root word mud and think about smearing it on something. Muddy is also an adjective that describes something that's dirty and messy. When you're a child, you often end up looking muddy after playing outside, because you've been splashing in puddles and playing in the leaves. Muddy can also describe soil that's waterlogged, like your vegetable garden after a big rainstorm. WORD FAMILYmuddy: muddied, muddier, muddies, muddiest, muddily, muddiness, muddying+/mud: mudded, mudding, muddy, muds USAGE EXAMPLESFor anyone who remembers the pre-Oslo years when Israeli soldiers patrolled the muddy streets of Gazalike target practice for Molotov cocktails, this is a disaster. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) A picture of muddy children’s gloves reminds you of the utter squalor that infected the whole site. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) So for the most part, they were left to wait along a muddy front until the next push forward. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj (of soil) soft and watery muddy barnyard Syn boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged wet covered or soaked with a liquid such as water 2adj dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck muddy boots Syn mucky dirty, soiled, unclean soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime 3adj (of liquids) clouded as with sediment muddy coffee Syn cloudy, mirky, murky, turbid opaque not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight 4adj (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear muddy colors Syn dingy, dirty, muddied impure combined with extraneous elements 5v dirty with mud Syn|Hyper muddy up begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil make soiled, filthy, or dirty 6v cause to become muddy These data would have muddied the prediction Hyper blur, confuse, obnubilate, obscure make unclear, indistinct, or blurred 7v make turbid muddy the water Hyper alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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