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muddened

muddened is the simple past and past participle of mudden.

Meaning of mudden

Verb

mudden (third-person singular simple present muddens, present participle muddening, simple past and past participle muddened)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become muddy or muddied
    • When the rains descend and the floods come the Ouse swells, muddens, and overspreads the meadows in a methodical manner, doing its overflowing with dismal thoroughness, but conducting itself with persistent respectability, under circumstances which would warrant any other river in roaring and...1874, Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, volume 13, page 208

Questions about muddened

What is muddened the simple past and past participle of?
Muddened is the simple past and past participle of mudden.

Words near muddened in the dictionary

  1. muddaland
  2. muddar
  3. mudded
  4. mudded out
  5. mudden
  6. muddened
  7. muddening
  8. muddens
  9. mudder
  10. mudders
  11. muddied

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muddened (page history and authors); mudden (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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