muddled

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}]
    

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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111 Moby Thesaurus words for "muddled":
      addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, anarchic,
      arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, at a loss, baffled, balled up,
      bamboozled, beat, beclouded, beery, befuddled, bemused, besotted,
      blear-witted, blind drunk, bollixed up, boozy, buffaloed, canned,
      chaotic, cloudy, confounded, confused, crapulent, crapulous, dazed,
      disconnected, discontinuous, disguised, disjointed, disordered,
      dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, far-gone, floored, flustered,
      fogged, foggy, fou, fouled up, fuddlebrained, fuddled, full,
      galley-west, gay, giddy, glorious, happy, hazy, helter-skelter,
      higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, in a dilemma, in a fog,
      in a mess, in a muddle, in liquor, in suspense, inchoate,
      inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, jumbled,
      licked, maudlin, mellow, merry, misted, misty, mixed up, mucked up,
      muddleheaded, muddybrained, muzzy, mystified, nappy, nonplussed,
      on tenterhooks, perplexed, pixilated, plastered, puzzled,
      puzzleheaded, reeling, scattered, scramblebrained, screwed up,
      shikker, skimble-skamble, snafu, sodden, sotted, stuck, stumped,
      thrown, tiddly, tight, tipsy, topsy-turvy, unconnected,
      under the influence, unorganized, upside-down