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muddle English

Meaning muddle meaning

What does muddle mean?
Definitions in simple English

muddle Verb

— If you muddle, you make yourself confused by mix things up. Young children tend to muddle their words. — If you muddle something, you mix an ingredient slightly for use in a cocktail. He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.

muddle

— noun (= clutter) a confused multitude of things — verb (= puddle) make into a puddle puddled mire — verb mix up or confuse He muddled the issues — noun (= fix) informal terms for a difficult situation he got into a terrible fix he made a muddle of his marriage

Synonyms muddle synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as muddle?

muddle English » English

mess confusion jumble confuse tangle disorder clutter bewilder puddle obfuscate muss mix-up fuddle chaos shemozzle pother mix up mess up entanglement welter snafu smother shambles scrape roil pickle perplex mull mix mare’s nest kettle of fish jam hole fix embroilment embarrass distract disconcert disarray disarrangement disarrange complicate addle wreck whirl waver unsettle unrest turbidness topsyturvydom

Topics muddle topics

What do people use muddle to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior Self-controlled

Mistake
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Confused
Social behavior Behavior Self-controlled

Untidy

Conjugation muddle conjugation

How do you conjugate muddle?

muddle · verb

Examples muddle examples

How do I use muddle in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I'm in the middle of a muddle.

Movie subtitles

Who wants books to muddle their thoughts and their ideas?
Josef's such a muddle-pate.
I can't leave everything in a muddle.
However, we must muddle through these things. We must live with tragedy.
Whiskey don't muddle me none.
What a medieval muddle.
Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking.
He likes to muddle up things.
I should have thought the whole thing was perfectly clear even to someone as muddle-headed as you are, Hertz.
I am a muddle-head.
I'm a broken down, drunken old muddle-head, and you have to explain it for me.
There's obviously been a bit of a muddle.
I'm afraid there was a slight muddle.
Usual muddle.
I know neither of us is in the habit, but I trust we'll muddle through.
Oh, Jiminy, what a flaming muddle.
Darling, I'm in such a muddle I don't know what I believe.
However, we must muddle through these things.
The stake was huge and yet my mind was a muddle.
Well, they'll just have to muddle through, won't they?
They're in an awful muddle.
Don't try and muddle me with long words, Henry Morlar.
And don't muddle it.
I tell you, don't muddle everything.
Hardly know where to begin, the place is such a muddle.
No muddle up, yes?!
Everything takes care of itself, if you don't. muddle it by interference.
They live from day to day and muddle through to death. And they always leave debts behind them. Who will pay in the end, tell me that?
Examining the first rushes. we stopped at a scene that seemed to have been shot in fog, a muddle of grayish white.
Be careful with Luis. He likes to muddle up things.
Now, the program manager is so impressed. with the way we muddle through a half hour of news. that he's expanding the show to a full hour.
And this ruble begins to muddle my brains, too.
Don't muddle me!
Sarah, where's your muddle-headed husband?
Usual muddle. -Yes, I know.

News and current affairs

CAMBRIDGE - There is no magic Keynesian bullet for the eurozone's woes. But the spectacularly muddle-headed argument nowadays that too much austerity is killing Europe is not surprising.
Or is this just another example of incompetence and muddle?
Clearly, the eurozone's muddle-through approach no longer works.
If fiscal policy is in a muddle, so is monetary policy.
On each front separately, he might manage to muddle through; together, they look likely to cement France's loss of competitiveness.
America, too, will manage to muddle through again - leaving even higher levels of debt for the future.
That mistake was made by the Japanese, who tried, unsuccessfully, to muddle through, only to end up with 18 years of stagnation.
Outside of Libya, where violent stalemate could continue for some time, embattled North African regimes also will muddle through.
Both europhiles and eurocrats shudder at the prospect that rejection in several member states, particularly in a large one, might kill the project, leaving the Union to muddle through with the Nice Treaty.
LONDON - As Syria's civil war has progressed, the West's views on arming the opposition have become increasingly confused, which reflects the growing muddle on the ground.
The eurozone's current muddle-through approach is an unstable disequilibrium: kicking the can down the road, and throwing good money after bad, will not work.
But the very ideas that helped them to survive continue to muddle the thinking of people who really ought to know better by now.
Had it not been for the world economic crisis, or if it ends up being short and shallow, many observers, including me, remain convinced that Mexico can continue to muddle through, as it has done since 1996.
Shimon Peres, seasoned political wizard that he is, could give his largely ceremonial role a fresh edge by helping all sides out of the muddle.
The hope that these countries can muddle through on their own is a dangerous illusion.
But the spectacularly muddle-headed argument nowadays that too much austerity is killing Europe is not surprising.
But financial markets were glued to the speech he gave in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on August 26. What they heard was a bit of a muddle.
Greater fiscal centralization and political unification seem inevitable, but it may take time to muddle through to that outcome.
If they are expected to muddle through, a blanket debt write-down would weaken banks and might slow economic growth.
A greater dilemma will emerge if the muddle-through strategy does not seem to be working.
That said, the US will probably muddle through another year, neither pushed over the cliff nor put on the road to robust recovery.
But Sweden's current political muddle is also rooted in longer-term changes, which to some extent reflect broader European trends.
And if the muddle of motives in Afghanistan is not bad enough, there is Pakistan to add to the confusion.
Consider the muddle in the United Nations Security Council over Syria's civil war.

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