English Dictionary

muddle

/ˈmʌdl̩/

verb

To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. / To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. / To dabble in mud. / To make turbid or muddy. / To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

She muddled the ingredients together to create a delicious soup.

意味（1）

To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.

Young children tend to muddle their words.

意味（2）

To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.

He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.

意味（3）

To dabble in mud.

Young ducklings foster'd by a hen;

Young ducklings foster'd by a hen; But, when let out, they run and muddle

意味（4）

To make turbid or muddy.

He did ill to Muddle the Water.

意味（5）

To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

意味（6）

To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.

Their old master Epicurus seems to have had his brains so muddled and confounded with them, that he scarce ever kept in the right way.

意味（7）

To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.

They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.