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muddies up

muddies up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of muddy up.

Meaning of muddy up

Verb

muddy up (third-person singular simple present muddies up, present participle muddying up, simple past and past participle muddied up)

  1. To make muddy; to make clear water into muddy water.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To confuse (an issue or situation); to obscure or obfuscate (an issue or situation).

Questions about muddies up

What is muddies up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Muddies up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of muddy up.

Words near muddies up in the dictionary

  1. muddier
  2. muddiers
  3. muddies
  4. muddies the water
  5. muddies the waters
  6. muddies up
  7. muddiest
  8. muddified
  9. muddifies
  10. muddify
  11. muddifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muddies up (page history and authors); muddy up (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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