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What (who) is Muddle - definition
muddle
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Muddle (disambiguation)
(muddles, muddling, muddled)
1.
If people or things are in a muddle, they are in a state of confusion or disorder.
My thoughts are all in a muddle...
...a general muddle of pencils and boxes...
= mess
N-VAR: oft in/into a N
2.
If you muddle things or people, you get them mixed up, so that you do not know which is which.
Already, one or two critics have begun to muddle the two names...
= mix up, confuse
VERB: V n
•
The question muddles up three separate issues...
He sometimes muddles me up with other patients.
PHRASAL VERB: V P pl-n (not pron), V n P with n, also V pl-n P
• muddled up
I know that I am getting my words muddled up.
ADJ
muddle
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Muddle (disambiguation)
v. a.
1.
Make muddy, make turbid.
2.
Stupefy, fuddle, inebriate, confuse, make half drunk, make tipsy.
3.
Make a mess of, muff, mull, spoil.
muddle
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Muddle (disambiguation)
¦ verb
1. bring into a disordered or confusing state.
(muddle something up) confuse two or more things with each other.
2. confuse (a person).
3. (muddle through (or Brit. along)) cope more or less satisfactorily.
4. US mix (a drink) or stir (an ingredient) into a drink.
¦ noun a muddled state.
Derivatives
muddled adjective
muddler noun
muddling adjective
muddlingly adverb
muddly adjective
Origin
ME (in the sense 'wallow in mud'): perh. from MDu. moddelen, frequentative of modden 'dabble in mud'; cf. mud.
Examples of use of Muddle
1. Let us muddle on with the present system, they say.
2. Muddle will be dangerous for patients," the report said.
3. We seem to have forgotten that zips achieve closure but that people just muddle through somehow.
4. In the meantime the EU will continue to muddle through under existing rules.
5. From a distance, the Montana wreckage looks like a tangled muddle of logs and debris.