English-Italian translations for muddle

• aggrovigliare
• arruffare
• casino
• guazzabuglio
• imbrogliare
• imbroglio
• impasticciare
• ingarbugliare
• intruglio
• pasticciare
• pasticcio
  Crea confusione tra il ruolo esecutivo e legislativo, un pasticcio che è l'esatto contrario della trasparenza e della responsabilità democratica. It creates a confusion of executive and legislative roles, a muddle that is really the opposite of transparency and accountability.
  La reputo una sorta di pasticcio emotivo che riesce a confondere tre elementi non connessi: le mine anticarro, le bombe a grappolo e le munizioni all'uranio impoverito. It is something of an emotional muddle and manages to confuse three unrelated elements: anti-tank mines, cluster bombs and depleted uranium munitions.
• pastrocchiare
• pastrocchio
• pateracchio

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