'Muddle' definitions:

Definition of 'muddle'

(from WordNet)
noun
A confused multitude of things [syn: clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother]
noun
Informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish]
verb
Make into a puddle; "puddled mire" [syn: muddle, puddle]
verb
Mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues" [syn: addle, muddle, puddle]

Definition of 'Muddle'

From: GCIDE
  • Muddle \Mud"dle\, n. A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness. [1913 Webster]
  • We both grub on in a muddle. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Muddle'

From: GCIDE
  • Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Muddling.] [From Mud.]
  • 1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • He did ill to muddle the water. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. [1913 Webster]
  • Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
  • Often drunk, always muddled. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. --F. W. Newman. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Muddle'

From: GCIDE
  • Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. i.
  • 1. To dabble in mud. [Obs.] --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'muddle'

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