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muck around

/muhk/US // mʌk //UK // (mʌk) //

忙着

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
    • : a highly organic, dark or black soil, less than 50 percent combustible, often used as a manure.
    • : mire; mud.
    • : filth, dirt, or slime.
    • : defamatory or sullying remarks.
    • : a state of chaos or confusion: to make a muck of things.
    • : Chiefly British Informal. something of no value; trash.
    • : earth, rock, or other useless matter to be removed in order to get out the mineral or other substances sought.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to manure.
    • : to make dirty; soil.
    • : to remove muck from.
    • : Informal. to ruin; bungle.to put into a state of complete confusion.
  1. 1
    • : muck about / around Informal. to idle; waste time; loiter.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • We can’t simply step over it and put it in the past because the muck is too wide and deep.

  • Skim off the muck that floats to the top every now and then.

  • The ground simmers at our feet as little mud volcanoes disgorge piles of hot, sulfurous muck.

  • Torrential, incessant rain turned battlefields into muck and flooded trenches and tunnels, while bitterly cold nights brought frostbite.

  • Instead of taking my imagined path up the sun-dappled hillside, we trekked downhill toward the muck and tussocks of a low-lying swampy area not far from the access road.

  • He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.

  • After a long day of him wading and me watching him in the muck, cocktails were required.

  • How nice of Bob Dylan to demonstrate that over a lifetime of work, even perfection sometime runs amok into a muck.

  • Italy, in the muck of an economic crisis, simply cannot afford to help everyone who lands on the shores.

  • The cops, of course, always attend Hempfest, not to muck up the vibe but to make sure no big, important laws are being flouted.

  • Roly was inclined to wait for developments, but as the call to "muck-muck" was now heard on the shore, he also withdrew.

  • Even your dirty paper, Waldemar, wouldn't rake that kind of muck up after ten years.

  • They were soon broken in; for the yard being full of muck, Pablo took them into it and mounted them.

  • And must she run, despite the tears And prayers of eighteen hundred years,A-muck in Slavery's crusade?

  • Even when put into a bag, and dragged to the muck-hill, it moved and stirred, and the next morning was nowhere to be found.