muddle up

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muddle up

verb muddles up · muddling up · 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.

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verb confuse something with another

Françaisconfondre
Italianofare confusione

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@misc{muddle_up_2026,
  title = {muddle up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/muddle%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}