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.