fuddle

fuddle
    n 1: a confused multitude of things [syn: {clutter}, {jumble},
         {muddle}, {fuddle}, {mare's nest}, {welter}, {smother}]
    v 1: make stupid with alcohol [syn: {befuddle}, {fuddle}]
    2: consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night" [syn:
       {drink}, {booze}, {fuddle}]
    3: be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think
       clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This
       question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even
       the teacher" [syn: {confuse}, {throw}, {fox}, {befuddle},
       {fuddle}, {bedevil}, {confound}, {discombobulate}]
    

Fuddle \Fud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fuddled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Fuddling}.] [Perh. formed as a kind of dim. of full. Cf.
   {Fuzzle}.]
   To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
   [Colloq.]
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         I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders.
                                                  --Steele.
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Fuddle \Fud"dle\, v. i.
   To drink to excess. [Colloq.]
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118 Moby Thesaurus words for "fuddle":
      Dutch courage, a high, addle, addle the wits, amaze, baffle,
      ball up, bamboozle, beat, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle,
      befuddlement, besottedness, bewilder, bewilderment, boggle,
      booze up, boozify, bother, botheration, buffalo, bug, chaos, cloud,
      confound, confuse, confusion, crock, daze, dazzle, discombobulate,
      discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose,
      discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization,
      disorganize, disorient, disorientation, distract, disturb,
      disturbance, drunkenness, embarrass, embarrassment, entangle,
      floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, frenzy, fuddledness,
      fuddlement, fuss, get, hangover, haze, inebriation, inebriety,
      insobriety, intoxication, jumble, katzenjammer, keep in suspense,
      lick, maze, mess, mist, mix up, moider, morning after, muddle,
      muddlement, mystify, nonplus, overtake, perplex, perplexity,
      perturb, perturbation, pickle, plaster, pollute, pot-valiance,
      pot-valor, pother, pucker, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle,
      ruffle, shuffle, sottedness, souse, stew, stick, stone, stump,
      swack, sweat, swivet, throw, throw into confusion, throw off,
      tipsify, tipsiness, tizzy, unsettle, unsettlement, upset