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muddying up

muddying up is the present participle and gerund 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 muddying up

What is muddying up the present participle and gerund of?
Muddying up is the present participle and gerund of muddy up.

Words near muddying up in the dictionary

  1. muddy up
  2. Muddy York
  3. muddying
  4. muddying the water
  5. muddying the waters
  6. muddying up
  7. muddyings
  8. muddyish
  9. Muddyman
  10. Mudeford
  11. mudeo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muddying 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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