Murk

Definition: Murk

Murk

Noun

1. An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance.

Verb

1. Make dark, dim, or gloomy.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "murk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Synonyms: Murk

Crosswords: Murk

Books

• Dario Figg and the Phantom of Murk (reference)

• Dea Murk (reference)

• From Murk to Masterpiece (reference)

• Surrogaten voor Murk Tuinstra : de geschiedenis van een vriendschap (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Essential Murk & Funky Green Dog Mixes (reference)

• United DJs of America: Murk Starring in Miami Vice (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Acrylic painting of a pair of Ross' Geese in flight by Martin R. Murk, S66 W38205 Highway ZZ, Eagle, Wisconsin 53119. A freelance commercial and wildlife artist. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

In the murk he could see it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

errësirë (background, blackness, darkness, eclipse, fogginess, gloom, mirk, mist, night, nigrescence, nigritude, obscurity, opacity, opaque, staining). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مظلم (black, dark, dim, dun, dusk, gloomy, mirk, murky, obscure, overcast, tenebrous), ‏ضباب (film, fog, gauze, haze, mirk, mist, reek, vapor, vapour), ‏ظلمة (darkness, gloominess, mirk, night, opacity, shadow, sombreness, umbra), ‏ظلام (blackness, dark, gloom, gloominess, mirk, night, obscurity, sadness, shade). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мъгла (blur, brume, exhalation, fog, mirk, vapor, vapour), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful), мрачина (dusk, mirk), мрак (dark, darkness, gloom, mirk, night, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness, shades, shadows, the opaque). (various references)

Danish

mørke (darkness). (various references)

Dutch

duisternis (darkness), duister (dark, darkness, dim, indistinct), donker (bleak, dark, darkness, dim, dismal, dreary, obscure). (various references)

Esperanto

mallumo (darkness). (various references)

Faeroese

myrkur (darkness). (various references)

French

obscurité (murkiness). (various references)

German

trübes wasser, Dunkelheit (blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, fog, gloom, gloominess, obscureness, obscurity, swarthiness), düsternis (gloom). (various references)

Greek 

σκότοσ (dark, darkness, dinginess, gloom, mirk, obscurity), ζόφος, ζοφερόσ (cheerless, dismal, gloomy, mirk, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

Hawaiian

errësirë (darkness). (various references)

Hebrew 

ק�"רות (bleakness, darkness, duskiness, gauntness, gloom, sombreness), עלט�" (darkness, gloom), חושך (dark, darkness, obscurity), אפל�" (blackness, darkness, dusk, gloominess, obscurity). (various references)

Hungarian

sötétség (blackness, dark, darkness, depths, dusk, gloom, mirk, murkiness, obscurity, sombreness, the dark), homály (blur, darkness, dimness, dimwit, gloom, gloominess, mirk, mist, obscureness, obscurity, shade, shades, shadow, twilight). (various references)

Icelandic

myrkur (darkness). (various references)

Indonesian

kegelapan (blackness, darkness). (various references)

Italian

oscurit� (background, blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, gloominess, mirk, murkiness, night, obscureness, obscurity, opacity, shade, somberness, sombreness), tenebre (dark, darkness, gloom, murkiness). (various references)

Papiamen

skuridat (darkness). (various references)

Pig Latin

urkmay.(various references)

Portuguese

trevas (dark, darkness, gloom, mirk, night, obscurity, opacity), sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-headed, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), negrume (blackness, mirk), negro (black, blackamoor, blacky, ebon, jim-crow, mirk, negro, sable, sambo), névoa (blur, cloud, damp, fog, mirk, mist, mistiness, rack, steam, vapor, vapour), escuro (abstruse, blackish, bock, dark, darkling, deep, dim, dimness, dismal, dusk, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, inky, mirk, moonless, muddy, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, somber, sombre, swart, umber), escuridão (cloudiness, dark, darkness, dead, dusk, gloom, mirk, mirkiness, murkiness, night, obscurity, opacity, opaque, shade), enevoado (dark, foggy, mirk, misty, somber, sombre). (various references)

Romanian

obscuritate (darkness, gloom, gloominess, haze, obscurity), obscur (abstruse, cloudy, confused, dark, darksome, dim, dull, entangled, foggy, gloomy, indistinct, obscure, obscurely, recondite, tenebrous, unknown, unnoticed), întuneric (blackness, dark, darkness, night, nigritude, obscurity, opacity, shadow, twilight), întunecat (black, blear, blind, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkish, darksome, deep, dismal, dull, dusky, fuliginous, fuscous, gloomy, glum, inky, lowering, muddy, obscurely, opaque, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

Russian 

хмурость (darkness, duskiness, gauntness, gloom, mirk), темный (black, blackish, blind, cimmerian, dark, darksome, dun, gloomy, ignorant, lowering, mirk, murky, obscure, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, sombre, sunless, tenebrous, unlit), темнота (blackness, darkness, mirk, night, nigritude, obscurity, opaque, shadowiness), мрачный (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, dismal, dour, drear, dreary, funereal, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, heavy, lugubrious, macabre, mirk, morose, mournful, murky, obscure, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, woebegone), мрак (darkness, gloom, mirk, obscurity, opaque). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mrak (dark, darkness, mirk, obscurity), mračan (bleak, dark, darksome, dim, dusky, gloomy, mirk, mirky, murky, obscure, somber, sombre, tenebrous), tmina (blackness, mirk), taman (dark, dim, just, just right, mirk, mirky, murky, narrow, near, opaque, tenebrous), sumoran (adust, atrabilious, bleak, dismal, gloomy, mirk, moody, sullen). (various references)

Spanish

tinieblas (dark, darkness, dissolution, dusk, duskiness, mirk, obscurity, shades). (various references)

Swahili

giza (darkness). (various references)

Swedish

mörker (blackness, dark, darkness, gloom, gloominess, mirk, nigritude, obscurity). (various references)

Tagalog

karimlán (darkness). (various references)

Thai

ความมื�"มน (murkiness). (various references)

Turkish

kasvet (cheerlessness, depression, doldrums, dolefulness, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, heaviness, heebie-jeebies, somberness, sombreness, sullenness), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit). (various references)

Ukrainian

темрява (dark, darkness, gloom, mirk, night, nigritude, obscure, obscureness, obscurity, opaque), темний (abstruse, backwoods, black, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, lowering, murky, nightly, nigrescent, obscure, occult, opaque, shaded, smutty, somber, sombre), морок (obscure), похмурий (adust, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, gaunt, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, nightly, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, sepulchral, shadowy, stygian, sullen, surly, tenebrous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cảnh u ám (gloominess, mirk), cảnh tối tăm (dismalness, gloominess, mirk, night). (various references)

caligatio, caligo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "murk": murker, murkest, murkier, murkiest, murkily, murkiness, murkinesses, murkly, murks, murky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Murk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Huruk, jurk, Kurk, markl, merc, merik, Merk, mirk, morc, mork, mouri, mru, mruk, mudr, Muhri, muk, Mulk, munk, mur, Muraki, murch, Murco, murd, mure, murf, murg, murh, Muri, murks, Murl, murm, murn, Muro, murp, murra, Murro, murs, murt, murx, nurk, qurk, smurk, Ummk, urk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rum.

-2 letters: mu, um.

+1 letter: murks, murky.

+2 letters: markup, mucker, murker, murkly, rumaki.

+3 letters: buckram, markups, mazurka, muckers, muckier, mudlark, mudrock, murkest, murkier, murkily, muskier, muskrat, pugmark, rumakis, unmaker.

+4 letters: buckrams, drumlike, krumhorn, lukewarm, mazourka, mazurkas, muckrake, muckworm, mudlarks, mudrocks, murkiest, musketry, muskrats, pugmarks, trinkums, truckman, truckmen, unmakers, unmarked, unmasker, upmarket, yarmulke.

+5 letters: automaker, berkelium, buckramed, drugmaker, drumstick, krumhorns, krummholz, krummhorn, mazourkas, misstruck, muckraked, muckraker, muckrakes, muckworms, murkiness, musketeer, submarket, touchmark, tumorlike, unmaskers, yarmulkes.