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muddle

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Source Word

muddle

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈmʌdl̩/

Verb

To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. / To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. / To dabble in mud. / To make turbid or muddy. / To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

Japanese Meaning

（物を）混ぜ合わせる、混ぜる / 混同する、混乱させる / カクテル用に軽くつぶす / 泥にまみれる、泥遊びをする / あてもなく混乱して考えたり行動したりする

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Don't muddle the paints; you'll ruin the colors.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

絵の具を混ぜ合わせないでください。色が台無しになります。

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Sense（1）

To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.

Young children tend to muddle their words.

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Sense（2）

To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.

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

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Sense（3）

To dabble in mud.

Young ducklings foster'd by a hen;

But, when let out, they run and muddle

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Sense（4）

To make turbid or muddy.

He did ill to Muddle the Water.

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Sense（5）

To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

Sense（6）

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

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Sense（7）

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

They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.

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muddles

（ present singular third-person ）

muddling

（ participle present ）

muddled

（ participle past ）

muddled

（ past ）

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