Muddle - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation (syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, pickle)
verb
Extra examples
...a car shopper thoroughly muddled by too much well-meaning advice...
...some mischievous brat had muddled the household accounts...
His papers were in a muddle.
His mind was a muddle.
Don't muddle me about like that, tell me exactly what you want.
I muddled away the whole evening over writing this letter.
I don't know how he produces any results, the way he muddles along.
Our accountant finally managed to sort out the muddle.
There was a bit of a muddle over our hotel reservations.
Someone's muddled up all the papers on my desk.
The government seems to have lost its way and muddled its priorities.
The twins are so alike that it's easy to muddle them up.
Spanish and Italian are very similar and I sometimes get them muddled up.
Be careful not to muddle the files you've already worked on with the others.
Don't muddle her with all the extra details at the moment.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: muddle
he/she/it: muddles
present participle: muddling
past tense: muddled
past participle: muddled
singular: muddle
plural: muddles
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