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English Dictionary: muddled	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muddled adj confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" Synonym(s): addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.] He did ill to muddle the water. --L'Estrange. 2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. --Bentley. Often drunk, always muddled. --Arbuthnot. 3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. [R.] They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it. --Hazlitt. 4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. --F. W. Newman.