All 3 Uses
turbid
in
Jane Eyre
(Edited)
- All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.
p. 18.5turbid = cloudy with sediment
- That beck itself was then a torrent, turbid and curbless: it tore asunder the wood, and sent a raving sound through the air, often thickened with wild rain or whirling sleet; and for the forest on its banks, THAT showed only ranks of skeletons.
p. 90.9
- When he had done, instead of feeling better, calmer, more enlightened by his discourse, I experienced an inexpressible sadness; for it seemed to me — I know not whether equally so to others — that the eloquence to which I had been listening had sprung from a depth where lay turbid dregs of disappointment — where moved troubling impulses of insatiate yearnings and disquieting aspirations.
p. 405.4 *turbid = unclear
Definitions:
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(1)
(turbid) of liquids: clouded as with sediment
of thinking or conditions: confused, muddled, or unclear - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)