资料来源 : 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.