Muddle

Quick meaning: Muddle is a verb meaning To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.

Meaning

To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.

More Meanings

1. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
2. To dabble in mud.
3. To make turbid or muddy.
4. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
5. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
6. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
7. A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

Example Sentences

He did ill to Muddle the Water.

Young children tend to muddle their words.

He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.

They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.

Word Forms

• muddles
• muddling
• muddled

Synonyms for muddle

Depending on context, synonyms include hole, welter, addle, jam, mess, smother.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include welter, jumble, mess, clutter, smother, fix.

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