muddle
IPA: mˈʌdʌɫ
noun
- A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
- (cooking and cocktails) A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.
- (India, historical) A servant's attendant; underservant.
verb
- To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
- To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
- To dabble in mud.
- To make turbid or muddy.
- To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
- To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
- To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
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Examples of "muddle" in Sentences
- I was blissfully unaware of the muddle.
- I was in a muddle and couldn't say anything.
- The collection just seems to muddle the facts.
- The section is a muddle of chronology and topics.
- Such is the delightful muddle of beer classification
- In this case, the article has been culled of the muddle.
- We had a bit of a muddle in the solo career portion of the lead.
- The blame for the confusion was probably due to a muddle of reasons.
- How do you distinguish one muddled inarticulate thought from the next
- It would be highly controversial of me to resolve the muddle in the article.