Word Meanings - BEMUDDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.

Related words: (words related to BEMUDDLE)

• MUDDLER
  One who, or that which, muddles.
• CONFUSE
  Mixed; confounded. Baret.
• BEWILDER
  To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison. Syn. -- To perplex; puzzle; entangle; confuse; confound;
• BEWILDERING
  Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties. -- Be*wil"der*ing*ly, adv.
• CONFUSEDNESS
  A state of confusion. Norris.
• MUDDLE
  Etym: 1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water. 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
• CONFUSEDLY
  In a confused manner.
• BEWILDERMENT
  1. The state of being bewildered. 2. A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.
• CONFUSELY
  Confusedly; obscurely.
• BEWILDERED
  Greatly perplexed; as, a bewildered mind.
• MUDDLEHEAD
  A stupid person. C. Reade. -- Mud"dle-head`ed, a. Dickens.
• BEWILDEREDNESS
  The state of being bewildered; bewilderment.
• STUPEFY
  ficare to make, akin to facere. See Stupid, Fact, and cf. 1. To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid. The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain.
• BEMUDDLE
  To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.
• OBSTUPEFY
  See STUPEFY
• INCONFUSED
  Not confused; distinct.