muddening
muddening is the present participle and gerund of mudden.
Meaning of mudden
Verb
mudden (third-person singular simple present muddens, present participle muddening, simple past and past participle muddened)
- 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
Noun
muddening (uncountable)
- The act or process of making or becoming muddied
- To this can be added, that it would be advisable to investigate the effects on both larva and adults of the sharply changed ecological factors, for instance of the artificial muddening of water in the streams, […]1935, Vitaly Dorogostajsky, Material for Study of Taxonomy, Geographical Distribution and Biology of Black Flies (Simuliidae) of Eastern Siberia
- Level off the perimeter to reduce muddening.1971, The Transatlantic Review - Issues 37-40, page 108
Origin of muddening
From mudden + -ing.
Questions about muddening
- What does muddening mean?
- Muddening means the act or process of making or becoming muddied.
- What is muddening the present participle and gerund of?
- Muddening is the present participle and gerund of mudden.
- What part of speech is muddening?
- Muddening is a noun.
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