Definition of Muddle

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Muddle

To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.

To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.

To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.

To dabble in mud.

To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.

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Muddle Quotations

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
Shel Silverstein

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
Harold Wilson

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.
Vinton Cerf

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
Tom Baker

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
Zane Grey

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.
Peter MacKay

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
Anthony Sampson

Muddle Translations

muddle in French is embrouillage
muddle in German is vermasseln, verwirren
muddle in Spanish is enredo
muddle in Swedish is oreda

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