MUD'DLE, verb transitive [from mud.] To make foul, turbid or muddy, as water. He did ill to muddle the water. 1. To intoxicate partially; to cloud or stupefy, particularly with liquor. He was often drunk, always muddled. Epicurus seems to have had his brains muddled.
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