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单词 muddy
释义 mud·dy
I. \ˈmədē, -di\ adjective
(-er/-est)
Etymology: Middle English moddy, from mode, mudde mud + -y
1. : morally impure : base
 < has avoided any off-color muddy humor — Newsweek >
 < graft-ridden and muddy regime — D.M.Friedenberg >
2.
 a. : having a great deal of mud : covered with mud
  < clambering on the divan with muddy shoes — Lucius Garvin >
  < waded through the muddy water — Robert Hichens >
  < eyes were fixed on the muddy coastline — T.B.Costain >
 b. : characteristic of or resembling mud
  < a muddy flavor in freshwater fish caught in a muddy-bottomed lake — Jane Nickerson >
  < a sky that had a muddy color >
 c. : turbid with sediment
  < quaff muddy ale in the bar — Max Peacock >
  < the horrible muddy coffee >
3. : cloudy in color : having no brightness or clarity : dull
 < eyes a little wild, muddy with anger and lack of sleep — John & Ward Hawkins >
 < colors … are subdued, hinting thus at the muddy monotony of his later paintings — R.M.Coates >
4. : living naturally close to or in mud
 < the coot is a muddy bird >
5.
 a. : cloudy in mind : muddled
  < are you able to reconstruct happenings clearly … in your mind, or do they come muddy and distorted — Charles Yerkow >
  < a muddy thinker, but a superb artist — J.D.Adams >
 b. : obscure in meaning : confused
  < his style is never muddy — W.J.M.Rankine >
6. : dejected, gloomy
 < the glandular, torpid, muddy stare — George Biddle >
7. of musical tones : run together : not clearly defined or articulated : indistinct
Synonyms: see turbid
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
1. : to soil or stain with or as if with mud
 < muddied and weary horsemen — S.H.Adams >
 < muddy and cheapen the quality of our actual everyday life — Thomas Wolfe >
2. : to make turbid
 < what are you doing in my well, muddying it up like that — Erskine Caldwell >
3. : to make cloudy or dull in color
 < a common admonition of the instructors is … “muddy your colors” — American Fabrics >
4. : to produce confusion in
 < exhaustion broke him down … and muddied his mind — Norman Mailer >
 < emotionalism which has muddied discussion — C.J.Rolo >
intransitive verb
: to become muddy
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