Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Dark; obscure; gloomy.
- n. Gloom; darkness.
- To darken.
- n. Refuse or husks of fruit after the juice has been expressed; marc.
Wiktionary
- adj. Dark, murky
- n. Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
- v. To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Dark; murky.
- n. Archaic Darkness; mirk.
- n. The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make dark, dim, or gloomy
- n. an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
Etymologies
- Middle English mirke, from Old Norse myrkr or Old English mirce. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Urbandictionary , which told them "the word 'murk' referred to physically beating someone so severely as to cause their death.”
“The spectator hit with the most murk is the next diver.”
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“Beyond its dingy platforms, the metal track which contracts into the murk is the road to China, though that is, perhaps, the last place you would guess to be at the end of it.”
“But what emerges from the murk is a big picture of revolution on all fronts.”
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“From somewhere in that murk came a woman's voice calling shrilly for help.”
“In the murk, we see nocrossing, no markings, no turnoff.”
“Lastly, I think its safe to say that you can never go "too dark" with these last two films because the setting needs to be a hellish, nightmarish nuclear holocaust where trigger happy machines lurk around ever corner ready to murk your ass if you're not careful, just like it was hinted at in the prologue of the Judgement Day.”
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“He was afraid of the huge seas that rose out of the murk astern and bore down upon him, and he was more given to cowering away from their threatened impact than he was to meeting their blows with the wheel and checking the ship's rush to broach to.”
“And I send messages to the lonely albatrosses veering through the murk that I am a lover.”
“What she ultimately uncovers in the murk turns out to be something neither she nor readers could have possibly anticipated.”
The Washington Post: Book review: Hackneyed rules of suspense disappear in Hayder's 'Gone'
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘murk’.
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7thGradeWords
horde, doggedly, retina, frail, jovial, insidious, injudicious, brazen, tentative, hortle, adaver, benign and 91 more...
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truman486's list
Masterbatory Aids
ensorcelled, scintilla, maudlin, lugubrious, frisson, praxis, copasetic, crotch, corollary, bandy, undulating, anthropomorphic and 65 more...
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Cloudy
with a chance of mizzle
puff, nebulous, fog, overcast, becloud, bedim, taint, befog, dapple, mottle, sully, pother and 83 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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No Forecast Needed
weather terms
thunderhead, nebula, cyclone, anticyclone, mammatus, mauzy, inclement, fair, anvil, misty, drizzle, overcast and 19 more...
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Words from a 2006 'A Scanner Darkly' film.
aphid, scramble, purport, toll, lurch, cold turkey, pharmacopoeia, vasoconstriction, inordinate, front money, meth, providence and 67 more...
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dramatobiotics's Words
chord, superset, minstrelsy, ply, quirk, bad handle, spin, betch, frenetic, spinnaker, seriph, palimpsest and 40 more...
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pretty sounds
vermouth, floozy, bungalow, iota, petrify, perpetural, ricochet, chartreuse, shirk, shiver, shatter, tussle and 44 more...
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zim's Words
tallulah, nimbus, murk, swelter, warble, dingus, prosper, tarpaulin, protosis, apotosis, aorist, ululate and 16 more...
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weathering heights
weather words
ground clouds, haze, mizzle, murk, brume, film, gloom, sunshine, frosty, storm, cirrostratus, cumulonimbus and 57 more...
Tweets
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bilby Ah. So you were proud to be a Murkin? Apr 24, 2009
sionnach Yes, as a matter of fact. Every Wednesday they served delicious Chicken Murk Nuggets in the company cafeteria for a mere pittance.
And once they sent me to Spain for a week to randomise tomato plants in a trial of an insecticide against the dreaded leafminer pest. So you could say that I was paid to figure out the most efficient way to exterminate the little bug(ger)s. Apr 24, 2009
bilby Were there purks for wurking at Murk? Apr 24, 2009
sionnach I used to wurk at Murk. Apr 24, 2009
brtom " Along an infinite invisible tight-rope taut from zenith to nadir the End of the World, a two headed octopus in gillies kilts, busby and tartan filibegs, whirls through the murk, head over heels, in the fob of the Three Lugs of Man." Joyce, Ulysses, 15 Dec 31, 2007