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muddle up

muddle up verb: to confuse (one or more objects with another object or other objects).

Verb

muddle up (third-person singular simple present muddles up, present participle muddling up, simple past and past participle muddled up)

  1. (transitive) to confuse (one or more objects with another object or other objects)
    • Whenever I meet the twins, I always muddle up their names. I call John Jim, and Jim John.
  2. (transitive) To mix together
    • muddle up the letters in the word, and try to make new ones.

muddle up meaning in Tamil

muddle up in Tamil

to muddle up, add to the confusion; makes things worse
குட்டையைக்குழப்பு kuṭṭaiyaikkuḻappu

Forms of muddle up

third-person singular presentmuddles up
present participlemuddling up
past participlemuddled up
pastmuddled up

Questions about muddle up

What does muddle up mean?
Muddle up means to confuse (one or more objects with another object or other objects).
What is muddle up in Tamil?
Muddle up in Tamil is குட்டையைக்குழப்பு (kuṭṭaiyaikkuḻappu). See Muddle up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is muddle up?
Muddle up is a verb.
What is the past tense of muddle up?
The past tense of muddle up is muddled up.

Words near muddle up in the dictionary

  1. muddle
  2. muddle along
  3. muddle on
  4. muddle the waters
  5. muddle through
  6. muddle up
  7. muddle-headed
  8. muddlebrained
  9. muddled
  10. muddled along
  11. muddled the waters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muddle up (page history and authors); குட்டையைக்குழப்பு (Tamil) (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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