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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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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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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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