Synonyms of the word

addle

• v. (provincial, Northern England) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
• v. (provincial, Northern England) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
• adj. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.
• adj. (by extension) Unfruitful or confused; muddled.
• adj. Addled.
• n. (obsolete) Liquid filth; mire.
• n. (provincial) Lees; dregs.
• v. To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.
• v. To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing,…
• n. A foolish or dull-witted fellow.

confuse

• v. To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
• v. (obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
• v. To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
• v. To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
• v. To mistake one thing for another.

jumble

• v. (transitive) to mix or confuse.
• v. (intransitive) to meet or unite in a confused way.
• n. A mixture of unrelated things.
• n. (Britain) Items for a rummage sale.
• n. (archaic) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

muddle

• v. To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
• v. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
• v. To dabble in mud.
• v. To make turbid or muddy.
• v. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
• v. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
• v. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
• n. A mixture; a confusion; a garble.

puddle

• n. A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.
• n. (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
• n. A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
• v. To form a puddle.
• v. To play or splash in a puddle.
• v. To process iron by means of puddling.
• v. To line a canal with puddle (clay).
• v. To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research…
• v. To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
• v. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…