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Mured vs Murked - What's the difference?

mured | murked |

As verbs the difference between mured and murked

is that mured is past tense of mure while murked is past tense of murk.

mured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mure)

    • mure

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) wall
    • (Shakespeare)
    No, no; he cannot long hold out these pangs.
    Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
    Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
  • :— Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, [IV, 4], line 2870
  • (obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh

    • References

    * Meaning "Husks of fruit": 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. From Wright's Dialect Dict.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)

    • Verb

  • (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
  • (obsolete) To enclose or imprison within walls.
    • (Spenser)
    The five kings are mured in a cave. — John. x. (Heading).

    Anagrams

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    murked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (murk)

    • murk

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) merke, mirke, from (etyl) ‘dark’.

    Alternative forms

    * mirk * mark (dialectal)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Dark, murky
  • * J. R. Drake
    • He cannot see through the mantle murk .
    Quotations
    * (mirk)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    * gloom

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
  • * 1918: Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=610682281&tag=Tarkington,+Booth,+1869-1946:+The+Magnificent+Ambersons;+illustrated+by+Arthur+William+Brown,+1918&query=+murking&id=TarMagn]
    • Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
    Derived terms
    * murky

    See also

    * muck

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * merk

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (AAVE) To murder or seriously injure.
  • * 2010 , Dana Dane, Numbers (page 232)
    • That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
  • * 2011 , Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles (volume 2)
    • He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.

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