0 covered by or containing mud (= wet, sticky earth) -- 泥濘的；渾濁的；黏滿爛泥的
2 to put mud (= wet, sticky earth) into something or cover something with mud -- 使黏上爛泥；使渾濁
The situation is admittedly somewhat muddied by the fact that the construction in is recessive.
In the case of rise, it is possible that the existence of raise (as opposed to make rise) muddies the waters to an extent.
My first task will be to say why the focus upon mental representation has muddied the waters.
Gregory seems to have confused the chronology of events in the 520s and 530s, just as he had muddied that of the two previous decades.
She muddies the waters further in her efforts to justify toleration as recognition.
They see this as muddying the distinction between prepositions and conjunctions that 'traditional grammar' upholds.
Here their prescriptions were often muddied by the residual influences of the patriarchal, theocratic system.
The picture is muddied somewhat by the fact that inflection itself isn't always regular.
