Meaning

2 senses

  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.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. He is muddling you up.

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Translations

3 languages

Forms

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

irregular

Present simpleLesson

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

Past simpleLesson

all personsmuddled up

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill muddle up

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mudB1muddlemuddyB2muesli
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