murk

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/mɜːk/    /mɝk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment. uncountable
    — […]in murk and occidental damp
动词 v.
  1. To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured. intransitive
    — Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
  2. To kill or eliminate. ambitransitive,slang
    — That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
  3. To beat up; to injure. ambitransitive,slang
    — cause we be murkin from the boogie And shittin on the crowds 'cause they jive fakin woody.
  4. To eliminate; to defeat overwhelmingly. ambitransitive,slang
    — POV: You're about to get murked by two of Philly's finest on the court. | @myteamtoyota
形容词 adj.
  1. Dark, murky.
    — He cannot see through the mantle murk.

词形变化

murker comparative murkest superlative mirk alternative,archaic mark alternative,dialectal murks present,singular,third-person murking participle,present murked participle,past murked past murks present,singular,third-person murking participle,present murked participle,past murked past merk alternative

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English merke, mirke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“dark, gloomy, evil”) and Old Norse myrkr (“dark, murky”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”). Cognate Danish mørk (“dark”), Norwegian mørk (“dark”), Swedish mörk (“dark”), Icelandic myrkur (“dark”), as also Albanian murg (“dark”), Proto-Slavic *morkъ (“darkness”), Lithuanian márgas (“multicolored”), murzinas (“dirty, spoiled”), Ancient Greek ἀμορβός (amorbós, “dark”).
词源 2
From Middle English mirke, merke, from Old English mirce, myrce (“darkness, gloom”) and Old Norse myrkr (“darkness, gloom”), both from Proto-Germanic *merkwą, *mirkwiz (“darkness”), Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).
词源 3
From Middle English mirken, probably from Old Norse myrkja, myrkva (“to make dark, darken”), from Proto-Germanic *mirkwijaną, *mirkwajaną (“to make dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”).
词源 4
Possibly an alteration of merc, from clipping of mercenary. First attested in the 1990s.
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