Definitions for muddle
ˈmʌd lmud·dle

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smothernoun

   a confused multitude of things

2. fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fishverb

   informal terms for a difficult situation

   "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

3. muddle, puddleverb

   make into a puddle

   "puddled mire"

4. addle, muddle, puddleverb

   mix up or confuse

   "He muddled the issues"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. muddlenoun

   A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

   The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.

2. muddleverb

   To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.

   The tiny speakers tend to muddle the words.

3. muddleverb

   To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.

   He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Muddleverb

   Etymology: from mud.

   1. To make turbid; to foul; to make muddy.

   The neighbourhood told him, he did ill to muddle the water and spoil the drink. Roger L'Estrange, Fables.

   Yet let the goddess smile or frown,
   Bread we shall eat, or white or brown;
   And in a cottage, or a court,
   Drink fine champagne, or muddl’d port. Matthew Prior.

   2. To make half drunk; to cloud or stupify.

   I was for five years often drunk, always muddled; they carried me from tavern to tavern. John Arbuthnot, Hist. of J. Bull.

   Epicurus seems to have had his brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way, though the main maxim of his philosophy was to trust to his senses, and follow his nose. Richard Bentley, Sermons.

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1. muddle

   Muddle typically refers to bringing something into a disordered or confusing state. It can mean to mix up or jumble things, or to think or act in a confused or aimless way. It can also refer to a state of disarray or confusion.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Muddleverb

   to make turbid, or muddy, as water

2. Muddleverb

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

3. Muddleverb

   to waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated

4. Muddleverb

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

5. Muddleverb

   to dabble in mud

6. Muddleverb

   to think and act in a confused, aimless way

7. Muddlenoun

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

8. Etymology: [From Mud.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Muddle

   mud′l, v.t. to render muddy or foul, as water: to confuse, esp. with liquor: to waste, squander, misuse.—v.i. to potter about.—n. confusion, mess: mental confusion, bewilderment.—n. Mudd′lehead, a blockhead.—adv. Muddlehead′edly.—n. Muddlehead′edness. [Freq. of mud.]

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of muddle in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of muddle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of muddle in a Sentence

1. Sean Coleman:

   Despite recent market firmness, large deals still face resistance given the risk-off environment and weak technicals: fund outflows, buyers on strike and the slowing CLO machine, we expect a muddle through economy rather than a recession this year.

2. Brian Gibbons:

   We do think that we'll see another leg down from here, but when you peel back the onion, we don't think defaults rates will be as bad as some people think, yes, there are about 20-25 names that could be in danger, but we think many of them should be able to muddle through over the next year.

3. E. M. Forster:

   It isn't possible to love and part...you can transmutate love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. Love is eternal

4. Mark Cohen:

   The retailers who were wandering around aimlessly pre-pandemic are going to be substantially less likely to muddle through than they were before.

5. Sean Coleman:

   We expect a muddle through economy rather than a recession this year, nonetheless, you could argue the high yield markets are pricing in a recession.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=muddle
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Muddle
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=muddle
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muddle
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=muddle