See murk on Wiktionary
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{
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"2": "ἀμορβός",
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}
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"text": "He cannot see through the mantle murk.",
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"feminine"
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"feminine"
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"text": "Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...",
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[
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zatǎmnjavam",
"sense": "to make murky or to be murky",
"word": "затъмнявам"
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"word": "затмевать"
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"ref": "1991, Camp Lo, Coolie High:",
"text": "cause we be murkin from the boogie\nAnd shittin on the crowds\n'cause they jive fakin woody.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Dana Dane, Numbers, page 232:",
"text": "That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.",
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},
{
"ref": "2011, Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles, volume 2:",
"text": "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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},
{
"ref": "2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-05-31:",
"text": "In truth, there are Easter eggs planted in just about every frame of Ready Player One, which never misses an opportunity to insert a recognizable character (hey, is that Jason Voorhees getting merked during the film’s first-person shooter level?) or toss a sop to the faithful.",
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},
{
"ref": "2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane:",
"text": "Yas (Vivian Oparah): And where is this, uh, summit of doom taking place?\nDom (David Jonsson): Il Giardino. There. Used to be \"our\" place.\nYas: No. Absolutely not. Text her, you can't make it. We'll go to Laser Quest, merk some eight-year-olds.",
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"murder"
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