muddy up

English

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Verb

muddy up (third-person singular simple present muddies up, present participle muddying up, simple past and past participle muddied up)

1. (of a body of water) To make muddy; to make clear water into muddy water.
2. (transitive, idiomatic) To confuse (an issue or situation); to obscure or obfuscate (an issue or situation).