muddy
verb/ˈmʌdi/
/ˈmʌdi/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they muddy | /ˈmʌdi/ /ˈmʌdi/ |
| he / she / it muddies | /ˈmʌdiz/ /ˈmʌdiz/ |
| past simple muddied | /ˈmʌdid/ /ˈmʌdid/ |
| past participle muddied | /ˈmʌdid/ /ˈmʌdid/ |
| -ing form muddying | /ˈmʌdiɪŋ/ /ˈmʌdiɪŋ/ |
- muddy something to make something muddy
- She had muddied her white dress.
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Idioms
See muddy in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarymuddy 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.
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