muddy up

• Verbe à particule signifiant rendre quelque chose peu clair, confus ou sale, souvent utilisé au sens figuré.

A phrasal verb meaning to make something unclear, confusing, or dirty, often used figuratively.

indénombrable · transitif · phrasal, séparable

1. Make something dirty with mudinformal

   To cause something to become covered or soiled with mud.

   embouer

   • The kids muddied up their shoes playing in the garden.
   • Don't muddy up the floor with your boots.
   • The rain muddied up the path completely.

   Synonymesbefoulbesmirchdirtymuddysmirchsoilstainsully

   Antonymescleanrinsewash

2. Confuse or obscureinformal

   To make a situation, idea, or issue unclear or more complicated.

   embrouiller, brouiller

   • His explanation only muddied up the issue further.
   • The new evidence muddied up the investigation.
   • Don't muddy up the discussion with irrelevant details.

   Synonymesbefogblurcloudcomplicateconfusemuddyobfuscateobscure

   Antonymesclarifyclearilluminatesimplify

Verbe de basemuddy