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Adjective muddy has 4 senses
- boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy - (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"
Antonym: dry (indirect, via wet)
- mucky, muddy - dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
Antonym: clean (indirect, via dirty)
- dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy - (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"
Antonym: pure (indirect, via impure)
- cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbid - (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
Antonym: clear (indirect, via opaque)
Verb muddy has 3 senses
- muddy, muddy up - dirty with mud
--1 is one way to dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- muddy - cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction"
--2 is one way to confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate
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- muddy - make turbid; "muddy the water"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
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Something ----s something
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