Muddle

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.