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混合,使微醉,使咬字不清晰胡亂對付困惑,混濁狀態
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Muddled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Muddling}.] [From {Mud}.]
1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.]
He did ill to muddle the water. --L'Estrange.
2. 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. --Bentley.
Often drunk, always muddled. --Arbuthnot.
3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or
intoxicated. [R.]
They muddle it [money] away without method or
object, and without having anything to show for it.
--Hazlitt.
4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to
muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. --F. W.
Newman.
Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. i.
1. To dabble in mud. [Obs.] --Swift.
2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
Muddle \Mud"dle\, n.
A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual
cloudiness or dullness.
We both grub on in a muddle. --Dickens.
資料來源 : WordNet®
muddle
n 1: a confused multitude of things [syn: {clutter}, {jumble}, {mare's
nest}, {welter}, {smother}]
2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a
terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: {fix},
{hole}, {jam}, {mess}, {pickle}, {kettle of fish}]
v 1: make into a puddle; "puddled mire" [syn: {puddle}]
2: mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues" [syn: {addle}, {puddle}]
資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
Muddle
Original name of {MDL}.