muddle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To make turbid or muddy.
2. v. To mix confusedly; jumble.
3. v. To confuse or befuddle (the mind), as with alcohol. See Synonyms at confuse.
4. v. To mismanage or bungle.
5. v. To stir or mix (a drink) gently.
6. v. To think, act, or proceed in a confused or aimless manner: muddled along through my high-school years.
7. n. A disordered condition; a mess or jumble.
8. n. Mental confusion.
9. muddle through To push on to a favorable outcome in a disorganized way.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make foul, turbid, or muddy, as water.
2. To bewilder; perplex.
3. To intoxicate partially; cloud or stupefy, particularly with liquor: as, to muddle one's brains.
4. To spend profitlessly; waste; misuse; fritter: usually with away.
5. To bring into a state of confusion; make a mess of.
6. To mix; stir: as, to muddle chocolate or drinks.
7. To contract filth; become muddy or foul.
8. To become confused, especially from drink.
9. To potter about; wander confusedly.
10. n. A mess; dirty confusion; filth.
11. n. Intellectual confusion; cloudiness; bewilderment.
12. n. A kind of chowder; a pottle made with crackers. See pottle, 2.

Wiktionary

1. v. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
2. v. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
3. n. A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To make turbid, or muddy, as water.
2. v. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
3. v. rare To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
4. v. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; ; also, to perplex; to mystify.
5. v. obsolete To dabble in mud.
6. v. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
7. n. A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make into a puddle
2. n. a confused multitude of things
3. n. informal terms for a difficult situation
4. v. mix up or confuse