Crossword clues for murk
murk
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Murk \Murk\, a. [See Murky.] Dark; murky.
He can not see through the mantle murk.
--J. R. Drake.
Murk \Murk\, n.
Darkness; mirk. [Archaic]
--Shak.
Murk \Murk\, n. The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.
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 mrak, Russian mrak "darkness;" Lithuanian merkti "shut the eyes, blink," from PIE *mer- "to flicker" (see morn). Murk Monday was long the name in Scotland for the great solar eclipse of March 29, 1652 (April 8, New Style).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
dark, murky alt. dark, murky n. darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment. v
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To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured. Etymology 2
alt. (context AAVE English) To murder or seriously injure. vb. (context AAVE English) To murder or seriously injure.
WordNet
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 Slayer
- Murk, an American English colloquialism for murder
Murk (also known by several other names, including Funky Green Dogs) is a house-music production team composed of Ralph Falcón and Oscar Gaetan. It formed in Miami in 1991. The group had seven consecutive singles that topped Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
Self titled, Murk is the duo’s fourth album, released in 2004 on Tommy Boy Entertainment, catalog number TB 1572. It includes previous hit singles and new album tracks. Vocalists on the album include Murk's lead singer, Tamara Wallace, Greg "Stryke" Chin, and ''Jennifer Carbonell," and Kristine W on "Some Lovin'." Includes 5 consecutive #1 Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart hits: "Some Lovin'," "Believe," "Doesn't Really Matter," "All Right," and "Time."
Murk is a 2005 Danish horror and psychological thriller film. The film was directed by Jannik Johansen, who wrote the screenplay along with Anders Thomas Jensen. The film stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Nicolas Bro.
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.