muddy
US: /ˈmədi/
UK: /mˈʌdi/
UK: /mˈʌdi/
English Vietnamese dictionary
muddy /'mʌdi/
- tính từ
- lầy bùn, lấy lội
- vấy bùn, đầy bùn, lấm bùn
- muddy shoes: đôi giày lấm bùn
- xỉn, xám, xám xịt; đục, đục ngầu
- muddy skin: da xám xịt
- a muddy river: sông đục ngầu
- a muddy voice: giọng đục
- lộn xộn, hỗn độn
- không rõ, mập mờ
- muddy ideas: những ý nghĩ mập mờ
- ngoại động từ
- làm lầy; làm bẩn, làm nhơ, làm vấy bùn
- làm xỉn đi, làm cho tối, làm vẩn đục
- làm rối trí, làm mụ đi
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, verb
+ adjective (muddier, muddiest)
1 full of or covered in mud: a muddy field / track + muddy boots / knees + Look, you've made the floor all muddy!
2 (of a liquid) containing mud; not clear: muddy water + a muddy pond
3 (of colours) not clear or bright: muddy green / brown
+ verb (muddies, muddying, muddied, muddied) [VN] to make sth muddy: She had muddied her white dress.
Idioms: muddy the waters, issue, etc. (disapproving) to make a simple situation confused and more complicated than it really is: She deliberately muddied the waters by constantly referring to other irrelevant cases.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 fouled, befouled, muddied, mud-spattered, dirty, grubby, grimy, soiled, mud-caked, slimy, mucky, miry; oozy, squelchy, squashy, boggy, fenny, marshy, swampy; Formal feculent; Colloq squishy, squushy:
Take off those muddy boots before you come into the house. The walk up to the house has become all muddy in the rain
2 confused, unclear, vague, obscure, dull, dim, fuzzy, muddled, addled, mixed-up:
Greg has only a muddy idea of what you're talking about.
3 drab, subdued, blurred, dingy, flat, murky, mat, washed out:
The colours in her paintings look very muddy to me.
v.
4 obscure, dull, dim, confuse, mix up, befog, cloud:
His explanation muddied the issue rather than clarifying it.
5 dirty, soil, begrime, smirch, besmirch, spatter, bespatter:
A passing car muddied my new skirt.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be, look | become, get | get sth, make sth
Don't get your shoes muddy! The rain had made the football pitch extremely muddy.
ADV.
extremely, very | all
My boots were all muddy.
| a bit, rather
We all got a bit muddy and wet.
Concise English dictionary
muddied|muddier|muddiest|muddies|muddying'mʌdɪ
verb
+dirty with mud
+cause to become muddy
+make turbid
adj.
+(of soil) soft and watery
+dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
+(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
+(of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment
