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bemuddle

verb

Etymology

From be- + muddle.

  1. derived from moddelen — “to make muddy”
  2. inherited from modelen
  3. prefixed as bemuddle — “be + muddle”

Definitions

  1. to confuse, distort

    • Its educational value is far higher than that of the newspaper, which, in spite of its many merits as a diffuser of information, is very apt to do its best to bemuddle and sophisticate plain facts.
    • But some modern sources of information have served at first to bemuddle, and then when more carefully sifted, to clear up the story.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bemuddle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA