Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive)To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.

    затмеватьzatmevatʹ

  2. (ambitransitive, slang)To kill or eliminate.

  3. (ambitransitive, slang)To beat up; to injure.

  4. (ambitransitive, slang)To eliminate; to defeat overwhelmingly.

More definitions
  • make dark, dim, or gloomy

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to make murky or to be murky:

Origin

From Middle English mirken, probably from Old Norse myrkja, myrkva (“to make dark, darken”

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”).

Possibly an alteration of merc, from clipping of mercenary. First attested in the 1990s.

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Forms

murks, murking, murked, murked
Base formmurk · to murk
3rd person singularmurks
Present participlemurking
Past simplemurked
Past participlemurked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymurk
he, she, itmurks

Past simpleLesson

all personsmurked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave murked
he, she, ithas murked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill murk

Word family

1 related words
Derivedmurk out

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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