All murk synonyms
murk
M m noun murk
- dimness β not bright; obscure from lack of light or emitted light: a dim room; a dim flashlight.
- gloom β total or partial darkness; dimness.
- murkiness β dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- dusk β the state or period of partial darkness between day and night; the dark part of twilight.
- darkness β the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness.
- dark β When it is dark, there is not enough light to see properly, for example because it is night.
- shade β the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
- obscurity β the state or quality of being obscure.
verb murk
- overcloud β to overspread with or as if with clouds: a summer storm that briefly overclouds the sun; to overcloud one's pleasure with solemn thoughts.
- graying β of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
- mizzle β mist or drizzle.
- mist β a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- obscure β (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- blinding β A blinding light is extremely bright.
- hazing β an aggregation in the atmosphere of very fine, widely dispersed, solid or liquid particles, or both, giving the air an opalescent appearance that subdues colors.
- muddying β Cause to become covered in or full of mud.
- cloud over β If the sky clouds over, it becomes covered with clouds.
- eclipse β Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- mizzling β Present participle of mizzle.
- cover up β If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- steamed β heated by or heating with steam: a steam radiator.
- greyed β Simple past tense and past participle of grey.
- darken β If something darkens or if a person or thing darkens it, it becomes darker.
- blinded β unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- grayed β Simple past tense and past participle of gray.
- greying β Present participle of grey.
- muddied β abounding in or covered with mud.
- befog β to surround with fog
- shrouded β a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- muddy the waters β If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
- blot out β If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.