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verb

Muddy v. t. (past & past part. muddied; pres. part. muddying)

To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.

(Fig.): To cloud; to make dull or heavy; to confuse.

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Etymology of 'Muddied'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Muddied" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the water hole in Yaqui canon had not been either muddied or exhausted, evidence that the raiders had not ranged that way. The sorry looking quartette fairly staggered into the little canon, and the animals were frantic with ...

— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan

... all set out—even the fellow with the broken head, who should certainly have kept in shadow—and straggled, one after another, to the beach, where the two gigs awaited us. Even these bore trace of the drunken folly of the pirates, one in a broken thwart, and both in their muddied and unbailed condition. Both were to be carried along with us, for the sake of safety; and so, with our numbers divided between them, we set forth upon ...

— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson

... too late. The Rev. Frederick West was plunged into the water-hole, from whose sheep-muddied waters he came up spluttering, "Yes, I believe in hell!" and for the first time in his life, perhaps, he really did believe in it, and thought that ...

— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill

... a terrible day for us all, is it not? Be careful of the hem of that veil, please. When I kissed Clarice good-by last Christmas I little thought what a good-by it was! Is she conscious? You have muddied the boa, I think, but never mind. Can ...

— In The Valley Of The Shadow • Josephine Daskam

... the street at Lady Malbourne's door, where the joyous vulgar fought with muddied footmen and tipsy link-boys for places of vantage whence to catch a glimpse of quality and of raiment at its utmost. Dawn was in the east, and the guests were departing. Singly or in pairs, glittering in finery, they came ...

— Monsieur Beaucaire • Booth Tarkington

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