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murk

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, myrke , from Old Norse myrkr "darkness," from Proto-Germanic *merkwjo- (cognates: Old English mirce "murky, black, dark; murkiness, darkness," Danish mǿrk "darkness," Old Saxon mirki "dark"); cognate with Old Church Slavonic mraku , Serbo-Croatian ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Murk may refer to: Murk (band) , Cuban-American house music duo :* Murk (album) , its 2004 self-titled release Murk (film) (Danish title: Mørke ), 2005 Danish thriller by Jannik Johansen and Anders Thomas Jensen Murk, a minor character in Buffy the Vampire ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As divers tried to work in the mud and murk , relatives of the victims gathered near the crash site. ▪ One afternoon I saw the huge grey mass of a supertanker steering towards us, some three miles distant in the murk . ▪ Out ...

Usage examples of murk.

Then, spotting the bed in the half-lit murk, Booly crawled up toward a mountain of white pillows.

Standing near the folding-over place of Niagara, at the top of the fall, I looked across the perpetual rainbow of the foam, and saw the whole further sky deflowered by the formless, edgeless, languid, abhorrent murk of smoke from the nearest town.

Jan Hile nearly jerked his hands out of his black gloves when one of his sentries cracked a harsh challenge in the murk.

Riverwind did not understand how Karn and Di An were able to find their way in the murk.

In the murk of the unlit room the child was little more than a featureless, blanket-wrapped lump, and Roo could barely make out the little bump of her nose.

Colin Nayre, a young man who might, at least, disclose some of the underlying clues to the movements of Murk Wessel and his gang of killers.

AFTER he was sure that Nayre had gone outside, Murk turned to his crew.

Farsighted enough to know that Murk would double-cross Nayre later, Castenago cagily pretended that he owed Nayre money, too.

As The Shadow sped for the door where Murk and his henchmen had fled, Nayre accompanied him, and the guards followed.

Switches drove home, most of the fabric of the enemy vessel went out of phase, the voyagers experienced the weirdly uncomfortable acceleration along an impossible vector, and the familiar firmament disappeared into an impalpable but impenetrable murk of featureless, textureless gray.

Through its murk Toc could see four corpses, all armoured, lying at the bottom of the pools.

In undead form, Umrae would likely manage better in the murk than its maker did.

It was, in fact, a wildish night, and I stayed until the little yellow speck went out, and all I could see through the murk was an occasional canopy of curving spray when the elbow of the Trevone Light touched a bare corner of that black Gulland.

The moon was low enough now that it shed littlie light, so the cove was enwrapped in murk, while the waves, breaking on the nodular shore, made an irregular line like a smudged chalk mark.

Murk gestured the mariachi into the storeroom, indicating that he could bring in the other musicians.