muddy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).

   “He slogged across the muddy field.”

2. sıfat 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.”

3. sıfat Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.

   “[H]er garments, heauy vvith her drinke, / Pul'd the poore vvretch from her melodious buy^([sic – meaning lay]), / To muddy death.”

4. sıfat Soiled with feces.
5. sıfat Of an animal or plant: growing or living in mud.

   “There is a point of strand / Near Vada's tower and town; and on one side / The treacherous marsh divides it from the land, / Shadowed by pine and ilex forests wide, / And on the other creeps eternally, / Through muddy weeds, the shallow, sullen sea.”

6. sıfat Dirty, filthy.

   “Thou sweet Arabian Panchaia, / Perfume this nastie age, smugge Lesbia / Hath stinking lunges, although a simpring grace, / A muddy inside, though a sulphul'd face.”

7. sıfat Not clear.

   “To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thine eyne? / Chriſtall is muddy.”

8. sıfat Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.

   “Muddy colors are often the result of mixing complementary colors—those opposite each other on the color wheel.”

9. sıfat Of an image: blurry or dim.
10. sıfat Of light: cloudy, opaque.
11. sıfat Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.

    “The television picture is decent, but the sound is muddy.”

12. sıfat Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.

    “Do'ſt thinke I am ſo muddy, ſo vnſettled, / To appoint my ſelfe in this vexation?”

13. sıfat Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.

    “Our ovvn muddy atmoſphere, that vvraps us round in obſcurity, though it fails to gild our proſpects vvith ſun-ſhine, or our groves vvith fruitage, nevertheleſs anſvvers the calls of industry.”

14. sıfat Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.

    “Business is business; and your business, let me remind you, is too muddy for such airs.”

15. sıfat Of a person or their facial expression: angry, sad, or sulky.
16. sıfat Slightly drunk; tipsy.

    “[N]ot that he gets drunk, for he is a very pious man, but he is always muddy.”

17. fiil To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.

    “If you muddy your shoes don’t wear them inside.”

18. fiil To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.

    “This is at the bottom a dictate of common ſenſe, or the inſtinct of ſelf-defence, peculiar to ignorant weakneſs; reſembling that inſtinct, which makes a fiſh muddy the water it ſwims in to allude its enemy, inſtead of boldly facing it in the clear ſtream.”

19. fiil To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.

    “The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject.”

20. fiil To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
21. fiil To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.

    “The addition of the second batch of paint muddied the bright colours to a dull and washed look.”

22. fiil To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).

    “As the humans establish tentative bonds with their evolutionary cousins, the inter-species waters start to muddy.”

23. fiil To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
24. fiil To cause or permit (someone or something) to become stuck in mud; to mire.

    “[…] I am novv ſir muddied in fortunes mood, and ſmell ſomevvhat ſtrong of her ſtrong diſpleaſure.”

25. fiil Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
26. fiil Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.

    “Malt before hops, the world over, or the beer muddies.”

27. fiil To become contaminated or impure.
28. isim The edible mud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata).