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muddle |
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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