muddy
/ˈmʌdi/ adjective B2- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”). · He slogged across the muddy field.· Take off your muddy boots before you come inside.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid. · The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the struggle between the alligator and the wild boar.
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Soiled with feces.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Not clear.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
Comparative muddier · Superlative muddiest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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They drank at the tanks and made the water all muddy, and then they fought over it, and then they would all rush together in mobs and shout: “There is no one in the jungle so wise and good and clever and strong and gentle as the Bandar-log.
Marilla found Anne face downward on her bed, crying bitterly, quite oblivious of muddy boots on a clean counterpane.
It was difficult to walk without falling into muddy holes, for the grass was so thick that it hid them from sight.
“How is it, then, that the woman who came into the room about nine left no traces with her muddy boots?”
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