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bemuddles

bemuddles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bemuddle.

Meaning of bemuddle

Verb

bemuddle (third-person singular simple present bemuddles, present participle bemuddling, simple past and past participle bemuddled)

  1. (archaic) to confuse, distort
    • He is swallowed up, body and soul, in law; he eats, drinks, plays (at the card table) Law, nothing but Law. He acts Ignoramus in the play so thoroughly, that you w'd swear that in the inmost marrow of his head (is not this the proper anatomical term?) there have housed themselves not devils but...1822, Charles and Mary Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6)

Questions about bemuddles

What is bemuddles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bemuddles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bemuddle.

Words near bemuddles in the dictionary

  1. bemuddies
  2. bemudding
  3. bemuddle
  4. bemuddled
  5. bemuddlement
  6. bemuddles
  7. bemuddling
  8. bemuddy
  9. bemuddying
  10. bemuds
  11. bemuffle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bemuddles (page history and authors); bemuddle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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