"de-muck" meaning in English

See de-muck in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: de-mucks [present, singular, third-person], de-mucking [participle, present], de-mucked [participle, past], de-mucked [past]
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  1. To remove muck or dirt from.

Inflected forms

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