Definition of "murk"

murk¹

/mɝk/

adjective
comparative murker, superlative murkest
1. Dark, murky.
  Quotations
  He cannot see through the mantle murk.
  1835, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay

murk²

/mɝk/

noun
uncountable
1. Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
  Quotations
  […] in murk and occidental damp
  c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]

murk³

/mɝk/

verb
third-person singular simple present murks, present participle murking, simple past and past participle murked
1. To make murky or be murky; to cloud or obscure, or to be clouded or obscured.
  Quotations
  Dawn had been murking through the smoky windows, growing stronger for half an hour...
  1918, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons‎

murk⁴

/mɝk/

verb
third-person singular simple present murks, present participle murking, simple past and past participle murked
1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To murder or seriously injure.
  Quotations
  cause we be murkin from the boogieAnd shittin on the crowds'cause they jive fakin woody.
  1991, Camp Lo, Coolie High
  That's why he was able to catch Crush out there sleeping and why he murked him before he could ask him any questions.
  2010, Dana Dane, Numbers, page 232
  He clowned Sticks, and Sticks murked him for no reason. And I don't know for sure, but I think he murked Trail.
  2011, Treasure Hernandez, Baltimore Chronicles, volume 2
  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.
  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 31 May 2018
  Yas (Vivian Oparah): And where is this, uh, summit of doom taking place?Dom (David Jonsson): Il Giardino. There. Used to be "our" place.Yas: No. Absolutely not. Text her, you can't make it. We'll go to Laser Quest, merk some eight-year-olds.
  2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane