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Today's Word "turbid"

Disturbed or confused on

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turbid \TUR-bid\ (adjective) - 1 : Muddy; thick with or as if with roiled sediment; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind. 2 : Thick; dense; dark; -- used of clouds, air, fog, smoke, etc. 3 : Disturbed; confused; disordered.

"Wesley's mind seems at this time to have been in a turbid and restless state." -- W. B. Stonehouse, 'The History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme'

 

Turbid comes from Latin turbidus, "confused, disordered," from turba, "disturbance, commotion."


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