Muddle

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To dabble in mud.

II. Muddle ·vt To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

III. Muddle ·vi To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

IV. Muddle ·vt To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.

V. Muddle ·vt To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.

VI. Muddle ·noun A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.

VII. Muddle ·vt To mix confusedly; to Confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to Mystify.