Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Full of or covered with mud.
  • adjective Not bright or pure.
  • adjective Not clear; cloudy, as with sediment.
  • adjective Lacking luster; dull.
  • adjective Confused or vague.
  • transitive verb To make dirty or muddy.
  • transitive verb To make dull or cloudy.
  • transitive verb To make obscure or confused.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To soil with mud; dirty.
  • To cloud; make dull or heavy.
  • Abounding in, covered with, or containing mud; foul with mud; turbid, as water or other fluids; miry.
  • Consisting of mud or earth; hence, gross; impure; vile.
  • Not clear or pure in color: as, a muddy green; a muddy complexion.
  • Cloudy in mind; confused; dull; heavy; stupid.
  • Obscure; wanting in clearness or perspicuity: as, a muddy style of writing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.
  • transitive verb To cloud; to make dull or heavy; to confuse.
  • adjective Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud
  • adjective Turbid with mud.
  • adjective Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.
  • adjective Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.
  • adjective Not clear or bright.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Covered with or full of mud or wet soil.
  • adjective With mud or other sediment brought into suspension, turbid.
  • adjective Not clear; mixed up or blurry.
  • adjective euphemistic Soiled with feces.
  • verb transitive To get mud on (something).
  • verb transitive To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
  • adjective (of soil) soft and watery
  • verb make turbid
  • adjective dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
  • adjective (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
  • verb dirty with mud
  • verb cause to become muddy

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Examples

  • Farmers in muddy overalls mix with wealthy members of the horsey set and celebrities such as movie star Robert Duvall or Fox News 'Brit Hume.

    Farmers vow to rebuild Northern Virginia livestock exchange as community hub Fredrick Kunkle 2010

  • Farmers in muddy overalls mix with wealthy members of the horsey set and celebrities such as movie star Robert Duvall or Fox News 'Brit Hume.

    Farmers vow to rebuild Northern Virginia livestock exchange as community hub Fredrick Kunkle 2010

  • Standing along the female factory's stone washtubs with freshly-cropped hair, the women had been forced to sew large yellow C's on their jackets and stood ankle-deep in muddy water for twelve-hour shifts.

    Deborah Swiss: The First Female Flash Mob Deborah Swiss 2010

  • Standing along the female factory's stone washtubs with freshly-cropped hair, the women had been forced to sew large yellow C's on their jackets and stood ankle-deep in muddy water for twelve-hour shifts.

    Deborah Swiss: The First Female Flash Mob Deborah Swiss 2010

  • We floated and swam on backs, breathing through bamboo poles in muddy water ditch, then crawled and walked through wooded area and swamps to friendly U.S. outpost camp.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Farmers in muddy overalls mix with wealthy members of the horsey set and celebrities such as movie star Robert Duvall or Fox News 'Brit Hume.

    Farmers vow to rebuild Northern Virginia livestock exchange as community hub Fredrick Kunkle 2010

  • The unruly bunch pushed into the White House, clods standing on the silk-upholstered furniture in muddy boots to get a glimpse of the new president (who was trying not to be crushed by his well-wishers).

    Inauguration Party Like It's 1829 The Nag 2009

  • It has been dunked in muddy beaver ponds, covered in powder like South Texas grit, rained on and other wise abused.

    Browning Maxus 2008

  • The problem was, in addition to being wet and muddy from the recent rain and storms, almost nothing (with anything good for a toddler to do) is open before noon on Sundays.

    Noelridge Park Greenhouse Hours « Become A Robot 2008

  • All this while chest-deep in forty - or fifty - degree water, mind you, and without being able to see any potential footholds on the side of the cave (because the water was muddy from the people who went through ahead of me) while wearing bulky, slippery neoprene gloves.

    a day without a bruise is wasted. slash_girl 2008

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