0 past simple and past participle of muddy
1 to put mud (= wet, sticky earth) into something or cover something with mud:
Because if it rained too much, the water got muddied, spoiling the "stuff" (water mixed with pulped rags) that went into the paper.
Here their prescriptions were often muddied by the residual influences of the patriarchal, theocratic system.
Though the actors liked this because it gave them time to think about the next cycle, it also muddied the enactment of the cycle.
On this point the waters were about to be muddied even more.
Clayton's discussion of this issue is muddied, however, by his inconsistent handling of the mind-body problem.
I am concerned that we are getting into muddied waters.
The issue would have been worse and more muddied.
There was talk then of "the flannelled fool at the wicket"and of"the muddied oaf at the goal".
