MUCKED (OUT) Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

mucked (out)

verb

past tense of muck (out)

as in turned out

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Large press group turned out to cover my trip to Turmusayya today to meet Americans living there.

— Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
Johnson doesn’t look like Monroe — and that turned out to be the point.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of turned out

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Nicastro made recordings of a number of cat meows when the pets were in different states — being fed, for instance, or brushed.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
It's brushed with kroeung, a paste made with lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime, garlic, turmeric and ginger.

— Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of brushed

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With German rider Richard Vogel, the Westphalian bay swept the first two show jumping majors of the season, at The Dutch Masters and Aachen, Germany.

— Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
The wealthy city’s economy was also battered by a financial crisis that swept across Asia.

— Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of swept

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His stunning win in Brooklyn, however, was scrubbed from the record books, and the New York State Athletic Commission issued Garcia a one-year ban.

— Chris McKenna, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Countdown Considerations Launch-viewing logistics have to factor in the risk of the launch getting delayed or scrubbed for a variety of hard-to-predict reasons.

— Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of scrubbed

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Fore says borax can cake up and leave residue behind if it isn’t fully dissolved and rinsed out.

— Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 1 Sep. 2026
But their work is less likely to become clichéd, because any stale fixations will always be rinsed and refreshed by the real.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of rinsed

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Her makeup was set with Charlotte Tilbury’s Airbrush Loose Powder around her T-zone and dusted delicately over her lipstick for more staying powder.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026
The harvest was done and dusted (literally) by July 27 – a month earlier than usual.

— Mark Rice-Oxley, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of dusted

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Political campaigns have always combed a candidate’s old statements and clips for material to be used against them.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
When several doctoral students combed through the sequencing results, there was only one way to explain why so many extra gene copies were scattered across the whole of the potamo genome.

— Carrie Arnold Contributing, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2026

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