MUDDLE


Meaning of MUDDLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ mʌd(ə)l ]

( muddles, muddling, muddled)

1.

If people or things are in a muddle , they are in a state of confusion or disorder.

My thoughts are all in a muddle...

...a general muddle of pencils and boxes...

= mess

N-VAR : oft in/into a N

2.

If you muddle things or people, you get them mixed up, so that you do not know which is which.

Already, one or two critics have begun to muddle the two names...

= mix up, confuse

VERB : V n

Muddle up means the same as muddle .

The question muddles up three separate issues...

He sometimes muddles me up with other patients.

PHRASAL VERB : V P pl-n (not pron ), V n P with n , also V pl-n P

• mud‧dled up

I know that I am getting my words muddled up.

ADJ

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне.