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muddiness

/muhd-ee/US // ˈmʌd i //UK // (ˈmʌdɪ) //

浑浊,泥泞,浑浊不堪,浑浊度

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    mud·di·er, mud·di·est.

    • : abounding in or covered with mud.
    • : not clear or pure: muddy colors.
    • : cloudy with sediment: muddy coffee.
    • : dull, as the complexion.
    • : not clear mentally.
    • : obscure or vague, as thought, expression, or literary style.
    • : Horse Racing. denoting the condition of a track after a heavy, continuous rainfall has ceased and been completely absorbed into the surface, leaving it the consistency of thick mud.
v.有主动词 verb
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    mud·died, mud·dy·ing.

    • : to make muddy; soil with mud.
    • : to make turbid.
    • : to cause to be confused or obscure.
v.无主动词 verb
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    mud·died, mud·dy·ing.

    • : to become muddy.

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Examples

  • April is often windy and muddy in Maine, but May and June are lambs.

  • Frequent words like these can quickly muddy the phonics waters.

  • Hearing devices are ever more capable of isolating specific sounds from a muddy cacophony of noises.

  • Water managers around the state say they’ve seen striking increases in muddy water, after logging operations.

  • Still, not knowing exactly who heard what — with none of the sources on the record — muddies the picture.

  • In late April or early May 1955, Chuck approached Muddy Waters about recording, and Muddy sent him to Leonard Chess.

  • To actually get out into a muddy field for a change and have some bombs go off certainly beat sitting around a dining room table.

  • When Muddy got the message, he ran to a phone and called his boss.

  • But these songs by Muddy—no one had ever made commercial records like this.

  • Muddy came in week after week to ask when it would hit stores.

  • "Sing," said the Bull, as the stiff, muddy ox-bow creaked and strained.

  • A woolen skirt, made quite short, to clear the muddy streets, is the proper thing.

  • They went together, picking their way across muddy streets and sidewalks encumbered with the cheap display of small tradesmen.

  • Those muddy ankles and petticoats are not fit to be seen—there, now you are sweeping the pavement.

  • The best anchorage here is under the flat-topped hill, at a third of a mile from the shore, in ten fathoms, muddy bottom.