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muddle
(mass) | muddle
- neporiadok, zmätok |
muddle
(encz) | muddle,nepořádek n: Zdeněk Brož |
muddle
(encz) | muddle,zmatek n: Zdeněk Brož |
Muddle
(gcide) | Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. i.
1. To dabble in mud. [Obs.] --Swift.
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2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
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Muddle
(gcide) | Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muddled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Muddling.] [From Mud.]
1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.]
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He did ill to muddle the water. --L'Estrange.
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2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to
intoxicate partially.
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Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and
confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right
way. --Bentley.
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Often drunk, always muddled. --Arbuthnot.
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3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or
intoxicated. [R.]
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They muddle it [money] away without method or
object, and without having anything to show for it.
--Hazlitt.
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4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to
muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. --F. W.
Newman.
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Muddle
(gcide) | Muddle \Mud"dle\, n.
A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual
cloudiness or dullness.
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We both grub on in a muddle. --Dickens.
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muddle
(wn) | muddle
n 1: a confused multitude of things [syn: clutter, jumble,
muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother]
2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a
terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn:
fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, {kettle of
fish}]
v 1: make into a puddle; "puddled mire" [syn: muddle,
puddle]
2: mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues" [syn: addle,
muddle, puddle] |
muddle
(foldoc) | Muddle
Original name of MDL.
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muddleheaded
(mass) | muddleheaded
- zmätenýmuddle-headed
- zmätený |
muddle-headed
(encz) | muddle-headed,zmatený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
muddled
(encz) | muddled,popletený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
muddlehead
(encz) | muddlehead,zmatkář n: Zdeněk Brož |
muddleheaded
(encz) | muddleheaded,zmatený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
muddles
(encz) | muddles,zmatkuje v: Zdeněk Brož |
Bemuddle
(gcide) | Bemuddle \Be*mud"dle\, v. t.
To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.
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Muddle
(gcide) | Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. i.
1. To dabble in mud. [Obs.] --Swift.
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2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
[1913 Webster]Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muddled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Muddling.] [From Mud.]
1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.]
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He did ill to muddle the water. --L'Estrange.
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2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to
intoxicate partially.
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Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and
confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right
way. --Bentley.
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Often drunk, always muddled. --Arbuthnot.
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3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or
intoxicated. [R.]
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They muddle it [money] away without method or
object, and without having anything to show for it.
--Hazlitt.
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4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to
muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. --F. W.
Newman.
[1913 Webster]Muddle \Mud"dle\, n.
A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual
cloudiness or dullness.
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We both grub on in a muddle. --Dickens.
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Muddled
(gcide) | Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muddled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Muddling.] [From Mud.]
1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.]
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He did ill to muddle the water. --L'Estrange.
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2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to
intoxicate partially.
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Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and
confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right
way. --Bentley.
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Often drunk, always muddled. --Arbuthnot.
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3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or
intoxicated. [R.]
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They muddle it [money] away without method or
object, and without having anything to show for it.
--Hazlitt.
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4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to
muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. --F. W.
Newman.
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Muddlehead
(gcide) | Muddlehead \Mud"dle*head`\, n.
A stupid person; a blunderer. [Colloq.] --C. Reade. --
Mud"dle-head`ed, a. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
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Muddle-headed
(gcide) | Muddlehead \Mud"dle*head`\, n.
A stupid person; a blunderer. [Colloq.] --C. Reade. --
Mud"dle-head`ed, a. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
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Muddler
(gcide) | Muddler \Mud"dler\, n.
One who, or that which, muddles.
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muddled
(wn) | muddled
adj 1: confused and vague; used especially of thinking;
"muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly
thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: addled,
befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly,
woolly-headed, wooly-minded] |
muddleheaded
(wn) | muddleheaded
adj 1: stupid and confused; "blathering like the addlepated
nincompoop that you are"; "a confused puddingheaded,
muddleheaded fellow"- Isaac Sterne [syn: addlebrained,
addlepated, puddingheaded, muddleheaded] |
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