Meaning

• A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

  "The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning."

• A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.

Meaning

• To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.

  "Young children tend to muddle their words."

• To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.

  "He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass."

• To dabble in mud.

• To make turbid or muddy.

• To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

• To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.

• To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.