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  2  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  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  muddled 
  adj  :  confused  and  vague;  used  especially  of  thinking; 
  "muddleheaded  ideas";  "your  addled  little  brain"; 
  "woolly  thinking";  "woolly-headed  ideas"  [syn:  {addled}, 
  {befuddled},  {muzzy},  {woolly},  {wooly},  {woolly-headed}, 
  {wooly-minded}]




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