muddle
Other forms: muddled; muddling; muddles
A muddle is something that's messy and confusing. If your bedroom looks like a hurricane just hit it, you might describe it as a muddle.
Oftentimes, we create the muddles in our lives, so it’s appropriate that muddle can be used as a verb meaning “to mix up” or “confuse.” Conveniently, though, the word muddle also describes a way out of difficult situations; to muddle through a troublesome task is to somehow figure it out, even if you don’t quite know what you’re doing. It has been suggested that muddle comes from an old Dutch word meaning “to make muddy.”
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make into a puddle
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mix up or confuse
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a confused multitude of thingstypes:rummagea jumble of things to be given awaytype of:
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informal terms for a difficult situation“he made a muddle of his marriage”types:type of:difficultya condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome
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Vocabulary lists containing muddle
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