n. 25B6; verb
the papers have got muddled up : CONFUSE, mix up, jumble (up), disarrange, disorganize, disorder, disturb, mess up.
it would only muddle you : BEWILDER, confuse, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, baffle, nonplus, mystify.
25B6; noun
the files are in a muddle : MESS, confusion, jumble, tangle, hotchpotch, mishmash, chaos, disorder, disarray, disorganization; N. Amer. hodgepodge.
a bureaucratic muddle : BUNGLE, mix-up, misunderstanding; informal foul-up; N. Amer. informal snafu.
25A0; muddle along/through COPE, manage, get by/along, scrape by/along, make do.