muddle

muddle is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make turbid, or muddy, as water. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make turbid, or muddy, as water.
2. transitive verb. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
3. transitive verb. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
4. transitive verb. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.
5. intransitive verb. To dabble in mud.
6. intransitive verb. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
7. noun. A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.
8. noun. informal terms for a difficult situation

   "he got into a terrible fix"

   "he made a muddle of his marriage"

   Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, mess, pickle

9. noun. a confused multitude of things

   Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, smother, welter

10. verb. mix up or confuse

    "He muddled the issues"

    Synonyms: addle, puddle

11. verb. make into a puddle

    "puddled mire"

    Synonyms: puddle

Synonyms

fix, hole, jam, mess, pickle, clutter, fuddle, jumble, smother, welter, addle, puddle

Common word forms

muddled, muddler, muddles, muddling, muddlement

Words from these letters

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