Definitions for: Muddle

[n] informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
[n] a confused multitude of things
[v] mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues"
[v] make into a puddle; "puddled mire"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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. --L'Estrange.

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. --Bentley.

Often drunk, always muddled. --Arbuthnot.

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.
--Hazlitt.

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

Mud"dle, v. i.
1. To dabble in mud. [Obs.] --Swift.

2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

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

We both grub on in a muddle. --Dickens.

Synonyms: addle, clutter, fix, hole, jam, jumble, kettle of fish, mare's nest, mess, pickle, puddle, puddle, smother, welter

See Also: confuse, difficulty, disorder, disorderliness, dog's breakfast, dog's dinner, jumble, mix up, rile, roil, rummage

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