dry vs muddy

dry

verb
  • To remove moisture from. 

  • To lose moisture. 

  • To exhaust; to cause to run dry. 

  • For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing. 

adj
  • Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages. 

  • Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter. 

  • Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent. 

  • Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom. 

  • Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion. 

  • Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned. 

  • Athirst, eager. 

  • Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened. 

  • Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb). 

  • Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust. 

  • Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color. 

  • Lacking interest, boring. 

  • Amusing without showing amusement. 

  • Built without or lacking mortar. 

  • Free from or lacking moisture. 

  • Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness 

  • Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk. 

  • Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids. 

noun
  • The process by which something is dried. 

  • The dry season. 

  • A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages). 

  • Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger. 

  • A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. 

  • An area of waterless country. 

  • An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it. 

muddy

verb
  • To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud. 

  • To become contaminated or impure. 

  • To make (something) impure; to contaminate. 

  • To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted. 

  • To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something). 

  • Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled. 

  • To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment. 

  • To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle. 

  • To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish. 

  • Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid. 

noun
  • The edible mud crab or mangrove crab (Scylla serrata). 

adj
  • Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted. 

  • Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy. 

  • Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull. 

  • Dirty, filthy. 

  • Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid. 

  • Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste. 

  • Of an image: blurry or dim. 

  • Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled. 

  • Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”). 

  • Soiled with feces. 

  • Of light: cloudy, opaque. 

  • Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed. 

  • Not clear. 

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