murk as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
murk
noun
1 murk
An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance.
synonyms: fog, fogginess, murkiness.
Roget 421:
darkness
etc.
adj.,
absence of light;
blackness
etc.
(dark color)
431;
obscurity,
gloom,
murk;
dusk
etc.
(dimness)
422.
Cimmerian darkness†,
Stygian darkness,
Egyptian darkness;
night;
midnight;
dead of night,
witching hour of night,
witching time of night;
blind man's holiday;
darkness visible,
darkness that can be felt;
palpable obscure;
Erebus [Lat.];
the jaws of darkness"
[Midsummer Night's Dream];
sablevested night"
[Milton].
shade,
shadow,
umbra,
penumbra;
sciagraphy†.
obscuration;
occultation,
adumbration,
obumbration†;
obtenebration†,
offuscation†,
caligation†;
extinction;
eclipse,
total eclipse;
gathering of the clouds.
shading;
distribution of shade;
chiaroscuro
etc.
(light)
420.
noctivagation†.
[perfectly black objects]
black body;
hohlraum [Phys.];
black hole;
dark star;
dark matter,
cold dark matter.
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verb
1 murk
Make dark, dim, or gloomy.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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