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- pronunciation:
- muh
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- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun
- phrases:
- muddle through
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb, noun), Word History
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
muddles, muddling, muddled |
| definition 1: |
to cause confusion or disorder in; mix up or jumble.
The report muddled the sequence of events.- synonyms:
- jumble, mess up, mix up, scramble
- similar words:
- clutter, confound, confuse, derange, disarray, disorder, foul up, litter, muss, perplex, tumble
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| definition 2: |
to confuse or disorient (a person), as with drink, conflicting advice, or the like.
- synonyms:
- addle, baffle, befuddle, besot, bewilder, confound, fuddle, obfuscate, stupefy
- similar words:
- confuse, disorder, dizzy, drug, intoxicate, mess, nonplus
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| definition 3: |
to manage badly; bungle.
- synonyms:
- boggle, botch, bungle, butcher, flub, foul up, mess up, mismanage, muff
- similar words:
- blow, blunder, bollix, fumble, goof up, mar, ruin, snafu, spoil, trash, wreck
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| definition 4: |
to stir up (a drink, muddy water, or the like).
- similar words:
- stir
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| related words: |
becloud, bewilder, botch, complicate, daze, embarrass, entangle, fog, frustrate, obfuscate, pose, scramble, snarl, untidy |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to think or act in a confused, disorganized, or uninformed manner.
They just muddle along aimlessly.- similar words:
- jumble
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| related words: |
blunder |
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| phrase: |
muddle through |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
a confused, disorganized, or uncertain state of mind or affairs; mess.
- synonyms:
- bewilderment, confusion, daze, disarray, disorder, fog, haze, jumble, mess, tangle
- similar words:
- botch, chaos, muss, snafu, upset
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| related words: |
bind, botch, bungle, confusion, daze, disorder, litter, mishmash |
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| derivations: |
muddled (adj.), muddlingly (adv.), muddledness (n.) |
The word muddle originally meant "to stir up mud."
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