Meaning

1 senses

  1. To succeed (often clumsily) despite being ill-equipped or inadequately trained.

    I’ve only had a few lessons, but I can muddle through the test.

    sich durchwursteln

Examples

3 sentences

  1. You'll have to muddle through on your own.

    deDa wirst du dich irgendwie allein durchschlagen müssen.

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  2. We'll muddle through this together.

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  3. We didn't get any instructions. I guess we'll just muddle through and make the best of things.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
to succeed (often clumsily) despite being ill-equipped or inadequately trained:

Origin

From muddle (“to think and act in a confused, aimless way”) + through.

From muddle (“to think and act in a confused, aimless way”) + through.

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Forms

muddles through, muddling through, muddled through, muddled through
Base formmuddle through · to muddle through
3rd person singularmuddles through
Present participlemuddling through
Past simplemuddled through
Past participlemuddled through

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymuddle through
he, she, itmuddles through

Past simpleLesson

all personsmuddled through

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave muddled through
he, she, ithas muddled through

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill muddle through

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

6 synonyms
get alongget bymake domuddle alongscrape alongscrape by

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mudB1muddlemuddyB2muesli
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