jumble
/ˈd͡ʒʌmbəl/ verb C1- To mix or confuse.
- To meet or unite in a confused way. · I tried to study, but in my half-awake state, all of the concepts seemed to jumble together.
He/she/it jumbles · Past jumbled · Past participle jumbled · -ing form jumbling
Verb forms
- Base form
- jumble
- He/she/it
- jumbles
- Past
- jumbled
- Past participle
- jumbled
- -ing form
- jumbling
From the library
A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
They won’t get this jumble loosened up in an hour.
At the mention of Monte Cristo Dantès started with joy; he rose to conceal his emotion, and took a turn around the smoky tavern, where all the languages of the known world were jumbled in a lingua franca.
Lakes, mountains, and rivers, shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor, when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation.
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