muddle up
1 of 1verb/ˈmʌ.dəl ʌp/
Forms:muddles up,muddling up,muddled up,muddled up
1
to confuse or mix two or more things or people together
- I always muddle up their names.
- She's always muddling up the dates.
- She muddled up the facts of the case.
- I'm always muddling up the left and right directions.
- It's easy to muddle the details up when you're trying to remember something from a long time ago.
2
to cause something to become confusing or disorganized
- The accident muddled up the traffic flow for hours.
- The committee's decision has muddled up the plans for the project.
- The teacher's explanation just muddles the students up.
- His attempt to rearrange the files only served to muddle up the entire organization of documents.