muck
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3.7
- noun
- /mʌk/
- The children played in the muck left by the storm, splashing and laughing happily.
- tidal muck
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Watch on YouTubeI am covered with muck and blowing my nose with black stuff but we are ending up with some mirror finish parts.
- I am covered with muck and blowing my nose with black stuff but we are ending up with some mirror finish parts.
- He went into the water and got stuck in the muck at the bottom.
- It was strange to write in this red muck of things from my heart.
- And sometimes you got to go through the mud and muck to get to the mountaintop.
- They're trying to clear some kind of muck in their gut.
- And then as time goes on, you start to understand that we're all in the muck.
- It is caught in the muck of it and and then people are in agreement about it.
- So it is difficult from the trenches, from the muck to see a possible sort of way out through love.
- And so when you're going through something, though, if you're so in the muck of it, you can't see that if your intentions are good, time is on your side.
- You have to remember that that when you were in the muck of the narcissistic relationship, you none of us were our best selves.
- You're in this muck of hate and you and it somehow it helps you make sense of this particular difficult moment in your life.
Examples
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Alex pulls herself up from the muck, brushing dirt and water from her face.
Fiction book (1993) -
All the muck and filth.
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So it's almost that love is kind of escape from the reality of life, from the muck of life.
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It's all the same muck.
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There was so much muck and green Moss there when I came back.
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Now let me drag us back into the filthy muck of reality.
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He went into the water and got stuck in the muck at the bottom.
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We get enough of that muck shoveled over our feet from everyone else around here.
Fiction book (1991) -
It comes from the bottom, the muck.
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I ate and breathed the filthy muck.
Synonyms
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1.0
Substance that makes things unclean
75
3.3
Waste water from toilets and drains that goes away through pipes
71
1.8
A thick slippery substance that feels wet and sticky
61
2.9
Animal or plant waste spread on soil to help plants grow
60
2.0
Dirt and disgusting things that make a place very dirty
47
3.0
A thick sticky substance that is soft and wet
43
2.8
The waste animals produce that is often used to fertilize soil
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4.8
A thick, wet, muddy substance that comes from dirty water
24
3.7
Small piles or pellets of animal poop
21
4.0
A thick sticky liquid that is soft and wet
17
2.3
Dirt and soot that make a surface look dirty
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4.6
Thick sticky stuff that is dirty or unpleasant
14
7.5
A thick sticky substance that is often messy
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6.3
Dirty, sticky stuff that makes things unclean
5
7.5
Something that damages a person's good name
1
7.7
A thick sticky substance that is hard to remove
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9.9
The solid waste people or animals leave when they go to the toilet
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9.9
Dirty mess or rubbish that makes a place unpleasant
1
9.5
A thick sticky substance that looks dirty and unpleasant
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Etymology
Muck originally named 'dung' or wet dirt, so muck now means any wet, dirty, unpleasant substance (especially animal waste), and you can remember it from the related word mucky meaning 'dirty'.