muddy

IPA: mˈʌdi

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

(transitive)
To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
(figuratively)
To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
(obsolete) To cause or permit (someone or something) to become stuck in mud; to mire.
(intransitive)
(also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
(figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.

Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
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.
Not clear.
Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
Of an image: blurry or dim.
Of light: cloudy, opaque.
Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
(chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
(archaic) Of a person or their facial expression: angry, sad, or sulky.
(obsolete) Slightly drunk; tipsy.

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