Muddle

Word MUDDLE
Character 6
Hyphenation mud dle
Pronunciations /ˈmʌdəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Muddle"

What do we mean by muddle?

To mix together, especially confusedly. intransitive verb

To mix (a drink or the ingredients of a drink), especially with a muddler. 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. intransitive verb

A disordered condition; a mess or jumble. noun

A state of mental confusion. noun

To push on to a favorable outcome in a disorganized way. phrasal verb

A mess; dirty confusion; filth. noun

Intellectual confusion; cloudiness; bewilderment. noun

A kind of chowder; a pottle made with crackers. See pottle, 2. noun

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.

A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Muddle

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The word "muddle" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The policy muddle is mirrored by the tactical failures. ❋ Nick Mills (2010)

A muddle is a bar tool that allows you to crush ingredients together at the bottom of a glass, releasing lots of flavor into a drink. ❋ Unknown (2007)

More perplexing to me is the entire copyright muddle, which is a train wreck here in the US, where everyone watches everyone and my cat's walk across the keyboard is copyrighted. ❋ Michael Allen (2005)

Now the problem is that if you don't know what you're doing, you'll end up in a bit of a muddle, which is why I've come here, because anyone who is anyone in the technology industry at some point comes here, where all the big technology trade shows and conventions are held. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Now I want you to do me another favour, in spite of this stupid muddle, which is probably all my fault. ❋ Unknown (2003)

If our victory has thrown any politician into a muddle, that is not our concern. ❋ Frances Renfrow Doak (1934)

Each term the muddle of purchasing textbooks bogs down many stressed-out students. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Here were deliciously flawed and human characters, perplexed by love and desire, and trying, as Bernadette Peters's character, the actress Desiree Armfeldt, puts it at one point, "to seek a coherent life" to take the place of the "muddle" that confuses and torments them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

'Dear me " I've been married all these years to Quentin " and still he makes this kind of muddle without my knowing! ❋ Unknown (2010)

GROSS: So there is some hope that, you know, if things kind of muddle along, that these losses will not be realized and that the government will not necessarily have to make do on hundreds of billions of dollars to bet (ph) along. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He was counting that there would be this kind of muddle among the Republican frontrunners. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Or "muddle" based on my new "Beginning, Muddle, and End" NaNo theory. ❋ Tanita Davis (2008)

But when I was mulling (har) over the possibilities for the green windfall apples left over from part one of my "pectin broth" plan, memories of two apple cakes emerged simultaneously from the muddle which is my subconscious. ❋ Lindy (2005)

Argent by the Tiber: Cardinal Pell sees "muddle" in young Catholics' approach to faith skip to main ❋ Argent (2006)

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