muddle n
1. a confused multitude of things [syn: clutter, jumble, mare's nest, welter, smother]
2. informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, pickle, kettle of fish] v
3. make into a puddle; "puddled mire" [syn: puddle]
4. mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues" [syn: addle, puddle]

Muddle \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.

Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. i.
1. To dabble in mud. [Obs.] --Swift.
2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

Muddle \Mud"dle\, n. A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness. We both grub on in a muddle. --Dickens.

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