murk

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
murk
    n 1: an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a
         cloud of some substance [syn: {fog}, {fogginess}, {murk},
         {murkiness}]
    v 1: make dark, dim, or gloomy
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Murk \Murk\, a. [See {Murky}.]
   Dark; murky.
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         He can not see through the mantle murk.  --J. R. Drake.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Murk \Murk\, n.
   Darkness; mirk. [Archaic] --Shak.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Murk \Murk\, n.
   The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed;
   marc.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "murk":
      amorphousness, bad light, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom,
      begrime, besmirch, besoil, black, black out, blacken, blackwash,
      block the light, blot, blot out, blotch, brown, cast a shadow,
      charcoal, cloud, cloud over, cork, dark, darken, darken over,
      darkishness, darkness, darksomeness, deadness, denigrate, dim,
      dim light, dim out, dimness, dinge, dirty, drabness, dullness,
      dusk, duskiness, duskness, ebonize, eclipse, encloud,
      encompass with shadow, flatness, fog, fogginess, foul, fuzziness,
      gloaming, gloom, grime, half-light, haze, indeterminateness,
      indistinctness, ink, lack of sparkle, lackluster, lifelessness,
      lusterlessness, mat, mat finish, melanize, mist, mistiness, muddy,
      mumbo jumbo, murkiness, mystification, nigrify, obfuscate,
      obfuscation, obnubilate, obscurantism, obscuration, obscure,
      obscurity, obumbrate, occult, occultate, opacity, overcast,
      overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, partial darkness, perplexity,
      semidark, shade, shadow, shapelessness, smirch, smoke, smudge,
      smut, smutch, somber, somberness, soot, tarnish, twilight,
      unclarity, unclearness, unplainness, vagueness

    

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