muddle

1. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. · Young children tend to muddle their words.
2. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. · He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.
3. To dabble in mud. · c. 1721-1722, Jonathan Swift, The Progress of Marriage Young ducklings foster'd by a hen; But, when let out, they run and muddle
4. To make turbid or muddy.
5. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
6. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
7. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.

He/she/it muddles · الماضي muddled · التصريف الثالث (اسم المفعول) muddled · صيغة -ing muddling