v.
- bring into a disordered or confusing state.
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(muddle something up)
confuse two or more things with each other.
- confuse (a person).
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(muddle through or Brit. along)
cope more or less satisfactorily.
- US mix (a drink) or stir (an ingredient) into a drink.
n.
a muddled state.
Derivative
- muddled adj.
- muddler n.
- muddling adj.
- muddlingly adv.
- muddly adj.
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘wallow in mud’): perh. from MDu. moddelen, frequentative of modden ‘dabble in mud’; cf. mud.
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