Murk

Pronunciation

• GenAm IPA: /mɝk/
• RP IPA: /mɜːk/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k

From Middle English merke, mirke, from Old English mirce ("dark, gloomy, evil"), from Proto-Germanic *merkuz ("dark"), from Proto-Indo-European *merg- ("to flicker; darken; dark").

Alternative forms

• mirk
• mark dialectal

Full definition of murk

Adjective

1. Dark, murky
• J. R. DrakeHe cannot see through the mantle murk.

Noun

1. Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.

Synonyms

• gloom

Verb

1. To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
• 1918: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=610682281&tag=Tarkington,+Booth,+1869-1946:+The+Magnificent+Ambersons;+illustrated+by+Arthur+William+Brown,+1918&query=+murking&id=TarMagnDawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...

Derived terms

• murky

Alternative forms

• merk

Verb

1. (AAVE) To murder or seriously injure.
• 2010, Dana Dane, Numbers (page 232)That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
• 2011, Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles (volume 2)He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.

Anagrams

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