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Meanings of muddle in English

Portuguese
bagunça
Catalan
batibull
Spanish
mezcolanza

A confused multitude of things.

      bagunça
      Catalan
      batibull
      Spanish
      lío

      Informal terms for a difficult situation.

          batibull
          Portuguese
          confundir
          Catalan
          confondre
          Spanish
          puddled mire

          Mix up or confuse.

                confundir
                Usage of muddle in English
                1
                As a result, Park Hill is an expensive muddle at taxpayer's expense.
                The Guardian
                2
                So in the best traditions of the British constitution things muddle through.
                The Guardian
                3
                The girl watched the muddle of wheeled things and stiffened with indignation.
                The Wrong Twin
                4
                In five minutes the picture was a formless, scarred muddle of colours.
                The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
                5
                Add a measure of Signature Release and muddle all the ingredients together.
                The Irish Times
                6
                To muddle the two is to eliminate the Gospel of Christ entirely.
                Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
                7
                I felt as if I had landed everybody in a hopeless muddle.
                The Knave of Diamonds
                8
                See the tangle and muddle that you are making of it all.
                The Prelude to Adventure
                9
                All the rest of their lives is muddle and cruelty and misery.
                The Research Magnificent
                10
                Her elfin features change into a delicate muddle of amusement and perplexion.
                The Irish Times
                11
                When I remember him I generally make a muddle of the business.
                The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
                12
                All the muddle, the confusion of this lazy year should be healed.
                Fortitude
                13
                In summary, it's been a muddle, or at best a muddle through.
                The Guardian
                14
                People muddle through, he told himself, and that has to be sufficient.
                The Centauri Device
                15
                Be a mon, and let me into the secret of this muddle.
                At the Foot of the Rainbow
                16
                It is a muddle tempered by the ink-bottle, like every incipient government.
                Poor Relations
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                Translations for muddle
                Muddle through the time
                Muddle across language varieties
                United Kingdom
                Common
                United States of America
                Less common