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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
muddle
    n 1: a confused multitude of things [syn: clutter, jumble,
         muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother]
    2: 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]
    v 1: make into a puddle; "puddled mire" [syn: muddle,
         puddle]
    2: mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues" [syn: addle,
       muddle, puddle]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. i.
   1. To dabble in mud. [Obs.] --Swift.
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   2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
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            He did ill to muddle the water.       --L'Estrange.
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   2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to
      intoxicate partially.
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            Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and
            confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right
            way.                                  --Bentley.
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            Often drunk, always muddled.          --Arbuthnot.
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   3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or
      intoxicated. [R.]
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            They muddle it [money] away without method or
            object, and without having anything to show for it.
                                                  --Hazlitt.
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   4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to
      muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. --F. W.
      Newman.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Muddle \Mud"dle\, n.
   A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual
   cloudiness or dullness.
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         We both grub on in a muddle.             --Dickens.
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5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
Muddle

   Original name of MDL.


Thesaurus Results for Muddle:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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