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muddled

[muhd-ld]

adjective

  1. mixed up, confused, or disordered.

    The rejection is based on faulty underlying assumptions and muddled thinking.

  2. muddy, clouded, or obscured; murky.

    After a long winter season, your pool is most likely a tub of muddled water with foliage and twigs floating about.

  3. (of an ingredient) mixed, crushed, or mashed into a drink, especially with a muddler.

    The freshly muddled kiwi adds an unexpected flavor to this handmade cocktail.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of muddle.

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • unmuddled adjective
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"The only explanation that made sense was that both babies got muddled up in hospital."

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His comments about former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis were muddled, angry and accusatory, including references to “auto pens” and cognitive tests.

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That claim emerges from a larger framework of forcefully articulated conservative ideas about the economy, which are wrong but can’t be effectively opposed by muddled progressive reasoning.

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A plane aborted take-off on a Gatwick runway after its co-pilot muddled up his left and right hands, investigators have found.

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Too often, the desire to unnerve audiences takes priority, resulting in the metaphor being muddled between jump scares and gore.

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