Muddle

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To mix together, especially confusedly.
  • intransitive verb. To mix (a drink or the ingredients of a drink), especially with a muddler.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To put into a state of confusion; confuse.
  • intransitive verb. To confuse or befuddle (a person or the mind, for example). synonym: befuddle.
  • intransitive verb. To mismanage or bungle.
  • intransitive verb. To make turbid or muddy.
  • intransitive verb. To think, act, or proceed in a confused or aimless manner.
  • noun. A disordered condition; a mess or jumble.
  • noun. A state of mental confusion.
  • noun. undefined
  • phrasal verb. To push on to a favorable outcome in a disorganized way.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A mess; dirty confusion; filth.
  • noun. Intellectual confusion; cloudiness; bewilderment.
  • noun. A kind of chowder; a pottle made with crackers. See pottle, 2.
  • To make foul, turbid, or muddy, as water.
  • To bewilder; perplex.
  • To intoxicate partially; cloud or stupefy, particularly with liquor: as, to muddle one's brains.
  • To spend profitlessly; waste; misuse; fritter: usually with away.
  • To bring into a state of confusion; make a mess of.
  • To mix; stir: as, to muddle chocolate or drinks.
  • To contract filth; become muddy or foul.
  • To become confused, especially from drink.
  • To potter about; wander confusedly.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make turbid, or muddy, as water.
  • transitive verb. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
  • transitive verb. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
  • transitive verb. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; ; also, to perplex; to mystify.
  • noun. A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.
  • intransitive verb. To dabble in mud.
  • intransitive verb. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
  • verb. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
  • noun. A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make into a puddle
  • noun. a confused multitude of things
  • noun. informal terms for a difficult situation
  • verb. mix up or confuse
  • Word Usage
    "Behind stone walls dripping with clematis, a crabapple's toss away from what he called a "muddle" of windblown daisies, beneath the dappled shade of a weeping beech tree, a ruddy-cheeked Englishman, dressed in a gently rumpled olive suit, sat with a sketch pad spread across his lap."
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    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    confuse  jumble  mix-up  rile  roil  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Udell  befuddle  cuddle  huddle  puddle  
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