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Muddled   /mˈədəld/   Listen
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Muddle  v. t.  (past & past part. muddled; pres. part. muddling)  
1.
To make turbid, or muddy, as water. (Obs.) "He did ill to muddle the water."
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." "Often drunk, always muddled."
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."
4.
To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.


Muddle  v. i.  
1.
To dabble in mud. (Obs.)
2.
To think and act in a confused, aimless way.





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"Muddled" Quotes from Famous Books



... of common sense on this question were formulated, which, for the most part, they are not, they would be something like this. Until we begin to think the facts which we know directly are all muddled together and confused: first of all it is necessary to sort them by picking out qualities from the general confusion in which they are at first concealed. It is possible that during this process, which is what is called analysis, we may be obliged, at first, to overlook some of what we already ...
— The Misuse of Mind • Karin Stephen
... think people that talk over their victuals are like to say anything very great, especially if they get their heads muddled with strong ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)
... muddled—quarrelled. They always do. They could not decide what to do with you. You know how they ...
— The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes • H.G. Wells
... requisite to pleasant dining which some more pretentious societies are without: they have leisure. Nothing is done in haste in Honolulu, where they have long ago convinced themselves that "to-morrow is another day." Moreover, you find them well-read, without being blue; they have not muddled their history by contradictory telegraphic reports of matters of no consequence; in fact, so far as recent events are concerned, they stand on tolerably firm ground, having perused only the last monthly record of current events. Consequently, they have had time to read ...
— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff
... mention her? I don't know, Harry, my wits are muddled. The Nervina? She is a goddess. Never was and never will be woman. She loves; she never hates, and still again she does not love. She is beautiful; too beautiful for man. ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint


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