muddy

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.

Đồng nghĩa: oozy, clatchy

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.

(euphemistic)Soiled with feces.

(archaic)Of an animal or plant: growing or living in mud.

(figuratively)Dirty, filthy.

(figuratively)Not clear.

(figuratively)Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.

(archaic, figuratively)Of a person or their facial expression: angry, sad, or sulky.

(figuratively, obsolete)Slightly drunk; tipsy.

Đồng nghĩa: fuddled, muddled, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, binned, bingoed, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, clobbered, corned, cocked, cockeyed, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, feeling no pain, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half polluted, half cut, half lit, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, high, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kettled, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mabok, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, Mozart and Liszt, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, MWI, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, Oliver, Oliver Twist, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, soshed, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight as a tick, tight, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

(transitive)To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.

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

Đồng nghĩa: bemire, bemud, clart

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

Đồng nghĩa: inturbidate, mud, muddle, roil, stir up

(figuratively, transitive)To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.

The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject.

Đồng nghĩa: bemud, confound, entangle, addle, baffle, lose, embroil, stick, stump, baffound, bamboozle, bedevil, befuddle, throw, bemud, bemuse, bewilder, bumfuzzle, complicate, confound, confuddle, confuse, confuzzle, dazzle, discombobulate, disconcert, blind, dumbfound, entangle, ferhoodle, flabagast, flabbergast, flabbergaster, flurry, fluster, flummox, fuddle, jumble, knot, mix up, muddle, muddy, ravel, perplex, puzzle

(figuratively, transitive)To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.

Đồng nghĩa: blemish, denigrate, stain, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear, bewray, blacken, blame, blaze, blemish, blot, blur, calumniate, calumny, chat shit, chat shite, cloud, defame, demonize, denigrate, deprave, depreciate, detract, dirty, discredit, disgrace, disparage, disrepute, diss, drag through the mud, forgab, forspeak, foul, infamize, lampoon, libel, malign, monsterize, muddy, reproach, revile, scandal, shit-talk, slag, slander, smear, smirch, spatter, spot, speak ill of, stab, stain, sully, talk shit, talk shite, talk trash, tarnish, torch, traduce, trash-talk, unflatter, vilify, vilipend, villainize, wrong

(figuratively, transitive)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.

Đồng nghĩa: dim, dull, dullen

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

Đồng nghĩa: foul up, hash, mangle

(figuratively, transitive)To make (something) impure; to contaminate.

Đồng nghĩa: poison, pollute, taint

(figuratively, obsolete, transitive)To cause or permit (someone or something) to become stuck in mud; to mire.

Đồng nghĩa: bemire, mire

(also, figuratively, intransitive)Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.

Đồng nghĩa: mire

(intransitive)Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.

(figuratively, intransitive)To become contaminated or impure.

(Australia, New South Wales, informal)(Australia, chiefly New South Wales, Queensland, informal) The edible mud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata).