Synonyms of the word

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.

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.

clutter

• n. (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
• n. (uncountable) Background echos, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
• n. (countable) A group of cats; the collective noun for cats.
• n. (obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.
• v. To fill something with clutter.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood.
• v. To make a confused noise; to bustle.

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.

difficulty

• n. The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
• n. An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
• n. Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning.

disorder

• n. Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
• n. A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
• n. (medicine, countable) A physical or psychical malfunction.
• v. (transitive) To throw into a state of disorder.
• v. (transitive) To knock out of order or sequence.

disorderliness

• n. The state or quality of being disorderly.

fix

• n. A repair or corrective action.
• n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
• n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
• n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
• n. A determination of location.
• n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
• v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
• v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
• v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
• v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
• v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
• v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
• v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
• v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

fuddle

• v. To confuse or befuddle.
• v. To intoxicate.
• n. Intoxication.
• n. Muddle, confusion.
• n. (Britain, dialect, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire) A party or picnic where attendees bring…

hole

• n. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.;…
• n. (heading) In games.
• n. (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
• n. (figuratively) A weakness, a flaw.
• n. (informal) A container or receptacle.
• n. (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged…
• n. (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
• n. (slang anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus.
• n. (Ireland, idiomatic, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
• n. (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
• n. (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
• n. (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
• n. (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
• v. (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
• v. (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
• v. (intransitive) To go into a hole.
• v. (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
• v. (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
• v. simple past tense of hele.
• adj. Obsolete form of whole.

jam

• n. A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used…
• n. (countable) A difficult situation.
• n. (countable) Blockage, congestion.
• n. (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
• n. (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
• n. (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
• n. (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
• n. (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
• n. (climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
• n. (Britain, slang) luck.
• n. (slang) sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
• v. To get something stuck in a confined space.
• v. To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
• v. To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
• v. To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
• v. (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
• v. (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
• v. To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
• v. (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
• v. (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some joint endeavour; stand up, chicken out, jam out.
• n. (dated) A kind of frock for children.
• n. (mining) Alternative form of jamb.

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.

mess

• n. (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
• n. (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one…
• n. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel…
• n. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
• n. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
• v. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
• v. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
• v. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
• v. (transitive) To supply with a mess.
• n. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding;…
• n. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
• n. (euphemistic) Excrement.
• v. (transitive) To make a mess of.
• v. (transitive) To throw into confusion.
• v. (intransitive) To interfere.

pickle

• n. A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
• n. (Often in plural: pickles), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
• n. The brine used for preserving food.
• n. A difficult situation, peril.
• n. (affectionate) A mildly mischievous loved one.
• n. (baseball) A rundown.
• n. A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown.
• n. (slang) A penis.
• n. (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
• n. (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc…
• n. In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the…
• v. To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
• v. To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
• v. (programming) (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
• n. (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.).
• n. (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit,…

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).

rile

• v. to make angry.
• v. to stir or move from a state of calm or order.

roil

• v. To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
• v. To annoy; to make someone angry.
• v. (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
• v. (obsolete, Britain, dialect, intransitive) To romp.

smother

• v. (transitive) To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or…
• v. (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
• v. (transitive) To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish; stifle;…
• v. (transitive) In cookery: to cook in a close dish.
• v. (transitive) To daub or smear.
• v. (intransitive) To be suffocated.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping,…
• v. (intransitive) Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
• v. (intransitive) Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled;…
• v. (soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
• v. (Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When…
• n. That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly.

welter

• n. A general confusion or muddle.
• v. (intransitive) To roll around; to wallow.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To revel, luxuriate.
• v. (intransitive) (of waves, billows) To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll.
• adj. Heavyweight (of horsemen).
• v. To wither; to wilt.