Mŭd'dle1, n.
n. A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness. There's no great odds betwixt us. We both grub on in a muddle. Dickens.
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Muddle
Mŭd’dle2, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. MUDDLED; p. pr. & vb. n. MUDDLING.] [From mud.] 1. To make foul, turbid, or muddy, as water. He did ill to muddle the water. L’Estrange. 2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. Epicurus seems to have had his brains muddled. Bentley. He was often drunk, always muddled. Arbuthnot. 3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having any thing to show for it. Hazlitt.