murk
To make murky or be murkyTo make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
Meaning
4 senses(intransitive)To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
затмеватьzatmevatʹ
(ambitransitive, slang)To kill or eliminate.
(ambitransitive, slang)To beat up; to injure.
(ambitransitive, slang)To eliminate; to defeat overwhelmingly.
- make dark, dim, or gloomy
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
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, murkedWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.