muddle

muddle
v
1. mix, mix up, jumble, jumble together, throw together, tumble; scramble, tangle, ensnarl; clutter, litter, turn upside-down, mess, mess up, make a mess of; disarrange, derange, disorder, disarray, disorganize.
2. botch, bungle, blunder, bobble, fumble, Inf. flub, mismanage, mishandle; spoil, mar, butcher, murder; make a hash of, mix up, Sl. screw up, Sl. louse up, Sl. ball up, Sl. bollix up, Sl. gum up, Sl. gum up the works, Sl. foul up.
3. confuse, confound, perplex, bewilder, puzzle, nonplus, mystify, baffle, pose, obfuscate, befog, buffalo, Sl. snow.
4.(all with intoxicants) stupefy, addle, fuddle, befuddle; intoxicate, inebriate, besot, make drunk, Inf. light up, Inf. put under the table; All Sl. plaster, pollute, souse, stew, crock, swack, pickle, stone, sozzle, booze up, liquor up, likker up.
5. muddle through
manage, contrive, make out, Inf. get on or along, scrape along, manage somehow; make one's way, work one's way, press on.
n
6. confusion, perplexity, bewilderment, bafflement, mystification, Brit. Dial. swither; stupefaction, uncertainty, demoralization, sixes and sevens; distraction, daze, haze, fog, Psychiatry. disorientation.
7. disorder, disarray, disorganization, disarrangement, derangement, hugger-mugger, confusedness; jumble, mess, tangle, Inf. stew, mix-up, snafu, Inf. foul-up, Sl. screw-up, Sl. louse-up, Sl. ballup, Brit. Sl. balls-up; clutter, litter, Fibber McGee's closet; hodgepodge, Brit. hotchpotch, mishmash, conglomeration

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