murk
/mɜːk/US/mɝk/
murk adjective: dark, murky.
Adjective
Noun
murk (uncountable)
- Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
- […]in murk and occidental dampc. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- O great star disappear’d—O the black murk that hides the star!1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
- Synonyms:
- gloom
Verb (1)
murk (third-person singular simple present murks, present participle murking, simple past and past participle murked)
Verb (2)
murk (third-person singular simple present murks, present participle murking, simple past and past participle murked)
- To kill or eliminate.
- That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.2010, Dana Dane, Numbers, page 232
- that 1 fag in there got my pistol confiscated, I got plenty of other guns but I want to murk that cocksucker2011 August 31, Justin Kemble, quotee, “Feds Consulted Urban Dictionary In Threat Case”, in The Smoking Gun
- To beat up; to injure.
- cause we be murkin from the boogie
And shittin on the crowds
'cause they jive fakin woody.1991, Camp Lo, Coolie High - He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.2011, Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles, volume 2
- cause we be murkin from the boogie
- To eliminate; to defeat overwhelmingly.
- POV: You're about to get murked by two of Philly's finest on the court. | @myteamtoyota2022 March 5, NBC Sports PhiladelphiaTwitter
murk meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
murk in Tamil
- இருள்
murk in Urdu
- اندھیرا, دھندھلاہٹ
murk in Bengali
- অন্ধকার, কুয়াশা, ঘোলাটে অবস্থা
Examples of murk in a sentence
- No one saw fire in the murk — as it might be, the match-flare for an arquebus.
- There's a hand groping around on my thigh in the murk.
- What a lamentable murk of problematism now befogs this spectacle of unseriosity, the American college.
Synonyms of murk
Forms of murk
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | murker |
| superlative | murkest |
| alternative form (archaic) | mirk |
| alternative form (dialectal) | mark |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | murks |
| present participle | murking |
| past participle | murked |
| past | murked |
| alternative form | merk |
Origin of murk
From Middle English merke, mirke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“dark, gloomy, evil”) and Old Norse myrkr (“dark, murky”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”). Cognate Danish mørk (“dark”), Norwegian mørk (“dark”), Swedish mörk (“dark”), Icelandic myrkur (“dark”), as also Albanian murg (“dark”), Proto-Slavic *morkъ (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), murzinas (“dirty, spoiled”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”).
From Middle English mirke, merke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“darkness, gloom”) and Old Norse myrkr (“darkness, gloom”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkwą, *mirkwiz (“darkness”), Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).
From Middle English mirken, probably from Old Norse myrkja, myrkva (“to make dark, darken”), from Proto-Germanic *mirkwijaną, *mirkwajaną (“to make dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).
Words formed from murk
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Questions about murk
- What does murk mean?
- Murk means dark, murky.
- What is murk in Tamil?
- Murk in Tamil is இருள். See Murk meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is murk?
- Murk can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce murk?
- Murk is pronounced /mɝk/ (US).
Words near murk in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: murk (page history and authors); murk (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); murk (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); murk (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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