English-Dutch translations for muddle

• warboel
  U hoeft maar naar de mensen te kijken, bij voorbeeld in Duitsland, Frankrijk en Spanje, die niet weten wat er gaat gebeuren met de sociale warboel van hun economie. You need only look at the people, for example in Germany, France and Spain who do not known what is going to happen to the social muddle of their economy.
  Hij heeft uitstekende forensische verslagen over deze voorstellen opgesteld, waarin naar voren komt wat voor warboel het in de Europese Unie is als het gaat om toezicht en evaluatie. He has done very good forensic reports on these proposals and they highlight what an awful muddle the European Union is in regarding monitoring and evaluation.
• door mekaar mengen
• gedoe
• gedonder
• geduvel
• gelazer
• verwarren
• wirwar

Definition of muddle

• To mix together, to mix up; to confuse
• To mash slightly for use in a cocktail
• To dabble in mud
• To make turbid or muddy
• To think and act in a confused, aimless way
• To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated
• A mixture; a confusion; a garble
• A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler

Examples

• Young children tend to muddle their words
• He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass
• The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning

Related words

• muddle-headed
• muddled
• muddler
• muddlehead
• muddle through
• Euro muddle
• get muddled