单词 | muddy |
释义 | mud·dy I. 1. < has avoided any off-color muddy humor — Newsweek > < graft-ridden and muddy regime — D.M.Friedenberg > 2. a. < 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. < a muddy flavor in freshwater fish caught in a muddy-bottomed lake — Jane Nickerson > < a sky that had a muddy color > c. < quaff muddy ale in the bar — Max Peacock > < the horrible muddy coffee > 3. < 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. < the coot is a muddy bird > 5. a. < 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. < his style is never muddy — W.J.M.Rankine > 6. < the glandular, torpid, muddy stare — George Biddle > 7. of musical tones Synonyms: see turbid II. transitive verb 1. < muddied and weary horsemen — S.H.Adams > < muddy and cheapen the quality of our actual everyday life — Thomas Wolfe > 2. < what are you doing in my well, muddying it up like that — Erskine Caldwell > 3. < a common admonition of the instructors is … “muddy your colors” — American Fabrics > 4. < exhaustion broke him down … and muddied his mind — Norman Mailer > < emotionalism which has muddied discussion — C.J.Rolo > intransitive verb |
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