Usually means: Makes less clear or distinct.
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  1. muddies: Merriam-Webster
  2. muddies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. muddies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. muddies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Muddies, muddies: Wordnik
  6. muddies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. muddies: Wiktionary
  8. muddies: Dictionary.com
  9. muddies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. muddies: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. muddies: Legal dictionary

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  1. muddies: Idioms

(Note: See muddy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (muddy)

adjective:  Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
adjective:  Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
adjective:  Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
adjective:  (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
adjective:  (archaic) Of an animal or plant: growing or living in mud.
adjective:  (figuratively)
adjective:  Dirty, filthy.
adjective:  Not clear.
adjective:  Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
adjective:  Of an image: blurry or dim.
adjective:  Of light: cloudy, opaque.
adjective:  Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
adjective:  Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
adjective:  (chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
adjective:  Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
adjective:  (archaic) Of a person or their facial expression: angry, sad, or sulky.
adjective:  (obsolete) Slightly drunk; tipsy.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
verb:  To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
verb:  (figuratively)
verb:  To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
verb:  To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
verb:  To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
verb:  To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
verb:  To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
verb:  (obsolete) To cause or permit (someone or something) to become stuck in mud; to mire.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  (also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
verb:  Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
verb:  (figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.
noun:  (Australia, chiefly New South Wales, Queensland, informal) The edible mud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata).
▸ Also see muddy


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