The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muddy \Mud"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muddied; p. pr. & vb. n. Muddying.]
To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.
(Fig.): To cloud; to make dull or heavy; to confuse.
--Grew.
Wiktionary
1 Made dirty with mud. 2 Made unclear, obfuscated (generally as part of the phrase muddied the water) 3 Made muted of color. v
(en-past of: muddy)
WordNet
adj. (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloughy, swampy]
dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable" [syn: mucky]
(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty, dingy, muddied]
(of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters" [syn: cloudy, mirky, murky, turbid]
See muddy
Usage examples of "muddied".
The chubby cheeks were gone, and it was difficult to trace a resemblance to father or mother because of the slackness that muddied her features.
With his muddied coat, windblown hair and weathered craggy face he did not look in the least like the dandified society rake she had first encountered--in fact, an outsider might consider that she had had quite an effect upon Mr.
Jak said, stooping over the muddied, trampled dirt to the east of the small clearing.
When at last the storm abated, they rode out of the port city on a road that was flooded and muddied by the rains.
Thankfully, the hem of her dress was high enough not to be muddied, and by the time she reached the stable she realized that she was mostly dry.
Richius, who ate alone that night with only his horse for companionship, and who slept apart from Voris and his warriors beneath a muddied blanket and a steady, melancholy drizzle.
The worn scabbard of the longsword that he untied from the saddle and slung across his shoulders further muddied her guess.
The snow was virgin no longer, trampled and muddied by the prints of many feet, as the militia dispersed to their beds.
But his vision was clouded, his perceptions muddied, the pain in his head crippling.
From dusk until full dark he immersed his feet in an inch-deep trickle of water muddied by sheep earlier in the day.