Synonyms: muddy
Definition: make turbid
Usage: muddy the water
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: muddy
Definition: cause to become muddy
Usage: These data would have muddied the prediction
Similar words: obnubilate, obscure, confuse, blur
Definition: make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
Usage: Her remarks confused the debate; Their words obnubilate their intentions
Definition: dirty with mud
Similar words: soil, grime, begrime, bemire, colly, dirty
Definition: make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Usage: don't soil your clothes when you play outside!
Definition: dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
Usage: muddy boots; a mucky stable
Similar words: soiled, dirty, unclean
Definition: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
Usage: dirty unswept sidewalks; a child in dirty overalls; dirty slums; piles of dirty dishes; put his dirty feet on the clean sheet; wore an unclean shirt; mining is a dirty job; Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves
Synonyms: muddy, murky, mirky, cloudy, turbid
Definition: (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
Usage: a cloudy liquid; muddy coffee; murky waters
Similar words: opaque
Definition: not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight
Usage: opaque windows of the jail; opaque to X-rays
Synonyms: muddied, muddy, dingy, dirty
Definition: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
Usage: dirty is often used in combination; a dirty (or dingy) white; the muddied grey of the sea; muddy colors; dirty-green walls; dirty-blonde hair
Similar words: impure
Definition: combined with extraneous elements
Synonyms: waterlogged, quaggy, swampy, mucky, muddy, miry, boggy, marshy, soggy, squashy, sloppy, sloughy
Definition: (of soil) soft and watery
Usage: 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
Similar words: wet
Definition: covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
Usage: a wet bathing suit; wet sidewalks; wet weather