v. 1 bewilder, confuse, confound, mystify, baffle, mix up, disorient, befuddle, perplex, bemuse, puzzle, befog I am totally muddled by your explanation of differential calculus 2 confuse, mix up, jumble, scramble, entangle, tangle, mess up, disorder, disarrange, disorganize, bungle, mismanage, Colloq muff My financial affairs got hopelessly muddled when I changed banks 3 muddle through. (barely) manage, cope, make it, scrape through or along, contrive, make do, get by, get along We were just muddling through when James was offered this wonderful job
n. 4 mess, confusion, mix-up, jumble, tangle, disorder, hotchpotch or US also hodgepodge, mishmash, chaos, disaster, Colloq stew, Slang US screw-up, snafu, Taboo slang Brit balls-up A lot of muddles, mix-ups, and misunderstandings ensued