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Murk vs Dimness - What's the difference?

murk | dimness |

As nouns the difference between murk and dimness

is that murk is darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment while dimness is the state of being dim, poorly illuminated, almost dark.

As an adjective murk

is dark, murky.

As a verb murk

is to make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured or murk can be (aave) to murder or seriously injure.

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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    dimness

    English

    Noun

  • The state of being dim, poorly illuminated, almost dark.

    • Anagrams

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