Crossword clues for muddled
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Muddling.] [From Mud.]
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To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.]
He did ill to muddle the water.
--L'Estrange. -
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. -
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. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.
--F. W. Newman.
Wiktionary
confused, disorganised, in disarray. v
(en-past of: muddle)
WordNet
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]
Usage examples of "muddled".
Mother would have squelched such talk, and Daddy muddled them with long words, while Jane Anne would have looked puzzled to the point of tears.
Finances were getting muddled, too, and he realised how small his capital actually was when the needs of others made claims upon it.
Their muddled life defied disentanglement, their difficulties were inextricable.
I will stop this muddled nonsense about closing my eyes once and for all.
This muddled my plans and caused me a great deal of needless irritation.
On any other such night Theo would have let it go, but he was stone sober, having drunk nothing but goblin tea, and it was either that or think about his own still very muddled plans.
If the centre of our life is a certain fact, would not people far from the centre have a muddled version of that fact?
But everything that he could have ascertained easily by reading my own plain directions on the bottle, as it were, remains for him a muddled and painful problem.
It was a habit she had when she spoke to him alone, or when she was muddled with sleep.
There had been a hundred issues that had to be muddled through before they could reaffirm the intense bonds of sisterly love they felt for each other.
However, he emerged with no broken bones, nothing but a sore and muddled head.
There were a muddled, vertiginous few months after the funeral, then work began to absorb his energy, and the Main his ragged affection.
Maggie had been due to conduct a meeting of the Camden Town coven in one of the upstairs rooms tonight, but her secretary had muddled the dates and they had found themselves double booked with the Norman Wisdom Fan Club, so Arthur Bryant offered to buy them all drinks.
I tested him after a while, at his request, and he muddled up and forgot about half of them.
Now his arms went up three times toward the muddled eastern sky, sleeves whipping in the wind.