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词组 muddle up
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Phr V
muddle up
muddles, muddling, muddled
muddle up sth or muddle sth up
to spoil the order or arrangement of a group of things
I arranged these cards alphabetically and she's gone and muddled them up.If you don't put pairs of socks together they all get muddled up in the drawer.
muddle up sb/sth or muddle sb/sth up
to confuse two people or things in your mindusually passive
The two older brothers look very similar and I get them muddled up.You've muddled up the Italian word with the Spanish one.
phrasemuddle up1. muddle up sth/sbmuddle sth/sb up usually passive BrE to make the mistake of thinking that something or someone is another thing or person: Is his girlfriend Joanne or Joanna? I keep muddling them up.get sth/sb muddled up One area's marked blue on the map, and the other's a dark purple - it's easy to get them muddled up.get muddled up Sorry, I got a bit muddled up over the dates. SIMILAR TO: mix up2. muddle sth upmuddle up sth BrE to put something in the wrong order or to spoil the order that things are in: Unfortunately my first and second names were muddled up on the examination certificate.get sth muddled up If you had a proper filing system, you wouldn't get all your papers muddled up. SIMILAR TO: mix up

muddle up

1. To render something awkward, confusing, and disorderly; to obscure or obfuscate something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "muddle" and "up." Often used in passive constructions. The introduction of new tariffs is likely to further muddle up the already complicated relationship between the two countries. They muddled the contract up with all sorts of misleading, cryptic language. Our roles within the team have become so muddled up that we've largely given up the idea of job titles.
2. To mix something up (with something else). A noun or pronoun can be used between "muddle" and "up"; often used in passive constructions. They look so alike that I always muddle up their names when I see them. I must have muddled the data points up when I was entering them into the system.

muddle something up

to mix something up; to make something confusing. You really muddled the language of this contract up. Who muddled up the wording?

muddled (up)

mod. alcohol intoxicated. I’ve had a little too much muddler, I think. Anyway, I’m muddled.
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