- From Mud
- To make turbid, or muddy, as water.ObsHe did ill to muddle the water.
- To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way.Often drunk, always muddled.
- To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.RThey muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.
- To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.
