murk

Meanings

1. Dark, murky.

1. Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.

1. To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.

1. To kill or eliminate.
2. To beat up; to injure.
3. To eliminate; to defeat overwhelmingly.

Etymology

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”).