Muddle

[Mud·dle]

A muddle is something that's messy and confusing. If your bedroom looks like a hurricane just hit it, you might describe it as a muddle.

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To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

Noun
informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

Noun
a confused multitude of things

Verb
mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues"

Verb
make into a puddle; "puddled mire"

v. t.
To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

v. t.
To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.

v. t.
To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.

v. t.
To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.

v. i.
To dabble in mud.

v. i.
To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

n.
A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.

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.]

He did ill to muddle the water.

2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.

Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way.

Often drunk, always muddled.

3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. [R.]

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

4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. F. W. Newman.

Muddle

Mud"dle, v. i. 1. To dabble in mud. [Obs.] Swift. 2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

Muddle

Mud"dle, n. A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.

We both grub on in a muddle.

To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

To dabble in mud.

A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.

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Usage Examples

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

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