Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To make turbid, or muddy, as water.
- 2transitive verb
To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
- 3transitive verb
To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
- 4transitive verb
To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.
- 5intransitive verb
To dabble in mud.
- 6intransitive verb
To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
- 7noun
A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.
- 8noun
informal terms for a difficult situation
"he got into a terrible fix"
"he made a muddle of his marriage"
- 9noun
a confused multitude of things
- 10verb
mix up or confuse
"He muddled the issues"
- 11verb
make into a puddle
"puddled mire"
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