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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Muddle  \Mud"dle\,  v.  i. 
  1.  To  dabble  in  mud.  [Obs.]  --Swift. 
 
  2.  To  think  and  act  in  a  confused,  aimless  way 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Muddle  \Mud"dle\,  n. 
  A  state  of  being  turbid  or  confused;  hence  intellectual 
  cloudiness  or  dullness. 
 
  We  both  grub  on  in  a  muddle.  --Dickens. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  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  1:  make  into  a  puddle;  "puddled  mire"  [syn:  {puddle}] 
  2:  mix  up  or  confuse;  "He  muddled  the  issues"  [syn:  {addle},  {puddle}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  Muddle 
 
  Original  name  of  {MDL}. 
 
 




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