muddy
verbNAmE//ˈmʌdi//
muddy somethingVerb Forms present simple I / you / we / they muddy he / she / it muddies
past simple muddied
-ing form muddying
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to make a simple situation confused and more complicated than it really is She deliberately muddied the waters by constantly referring to other irrelevant cases.
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