muddle

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mud|dle /m'ʌdəl/ (muddles muddling muddled)
1 [N-VAR] oft in/into a N
If people or things are in a muddle, they are in a state of confusion or disorder.
My thoughts are all in a muddle...
...a general muddle of pencils and boxes...
= mess
2 [VERB] V n
If you muddle things or people, you get them mixed up, so that you do not know which is which.
Already, one or two critics have begun to muddle the two names...
= mix up, confuse
[PHRASAL VERB] V P pl-n (not pron), V n P with n, also V pl-n P
Muddle up means the same as muddle.
The question muddles up three separate issues...
He sometimes muddles me up with other patients.
● muddled up [ADJ]
I know that I am getting my words muddled up.muddle through
[PHRASAL VERB] V P, V P n, V way P
If you muddle through, you manage to do something even though you do not have the proper equipment or do not really know how to do it.
We will muddle through and just play it day by day...
The BBC may be able to muddle through the next five years like this...
Somehow or other, we muddled our way through.muddle up
see muddle 2

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