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bemuddling

bemuddling is the present participle and gerund 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 bemuddling

What is bemuddling the present participle and gerund of?
Bemuddling is the present participle and gerund of bemuddle.

Words near bemuddling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bemuddling (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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