Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Partial or total darkness; gloom.
- noun Dense fog.
- adjective Partially or totally dark; gloomy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Refuse or husks of fruit after the juice has been expressed; marc.
- To darken.
- Dark; obscure; gloomy.
- noun Gloom; darkness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic Darkness; mirk.
- adjective Dark; murky.
- noun The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Dark ,murky - noun
Darkness , or a dark or gloomy environment. - verb To make
murky or be murky; tocloud orobscure , or to beclouded orobscured .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make dark, dim, or gloomy
- noun an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Urbandictionary , which told them "the word 'murk' referred to physically beating someone so severely as to cause their death."
Gizmodo Kyle Wagner 2011
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The spectator hit with the most murk is the next diver.
Molly Baker: Parenting Lessons from 'Phineas and Ferb' Molly Baker 2010
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The spectator hit with the most murk is the next diver.
Molly Baker: Parenting Lessons from 'Phineas and Ferb' Molly Baker 2010
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The spectator hit with the most murk is the next diver.
Molly Baker: Parenting Lessons from 'Phineas and Ferb' Molly Baker 2010
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The spectator hit with the most murk is the next diver.
Molly Baker: Parenting Lessons from 'Phineas and Ferb' Molly Baker 2010
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Beyond its dingy platforms, the metal track which contracts into the murk is the road to China, though that is, perhaps, the last place you would guess to be at the end of it.
London River 1915
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But what emerges from the murk is a big picture of revolution on all fronts.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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But what emerges from the murk is a big picture of revolution on all fronts.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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From somewhere in that murk came a woman's voice calling shrilly for help.
Page 1 2010
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In the murk, we see nocrossing, no markings, no turnoff.
Disorienteering Fred Osuna 2011
brtom commented on the word murk
" Along an infinite invisible tight-rope taut from zenith to nadir the End of the World, a two headed octopus in gillies kilts, busby and tartan filibegs, whirls through the murk, head over heels, in the fob of the Three Lugs of Man." Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 1, 2008
sionnach commented on the word murk
I used to wurk at Murk.
April 24, 2009
bilby commented on the word murk
Were there purks for wurking at Murk?
April 25, 2009
sionnach commented on the word murk
Yes, as a matter of fact. Every Wednesday they served delicious Chicken Murk Nuggets in the company cafeteria for a mere pittance.
And once they sent me to Spain for a week to randomise tomato plants in a trial of an insecticide against the dreaded leafminer pest. So you could say that I was paid to figure out the most efficient way to exterminate the little bug(ger)s.
April 25, 2009
bilby commented on the word murk
Ah. So you were proud to be a Murkin?
April 25, 2009
ry commented on the word murk
commonly an alternate spelling of the colloquial merk (see Twitter examples here and at merk, merked)
January 22, 2021