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Muddle

To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

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Confuse 76% connected

Mixed; confounded.

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Difficulty 76% connected

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…

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Disorder 76% connected

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

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Disorderliness 76% connected

The state of being disorderly.

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Jumble 76% connected

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

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Rile 76% connected

To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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Roil 76% connected

To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.

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Rummage 76% connected

A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowag…

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Confuse 74% connected

Mixed; confounded.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Confuse 74% connected

Mixed; confounded.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Jumble 74% connected

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Jumble 74% connected

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

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Scramble 74% connected

To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

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Scramble 74% connected

To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

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Synonym 12

Addle 92% connected

Liquid filth; mire.

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Clutter 92% connected

A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fix 92% connected

Fixed; solidified.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fuddle 92% connected

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hole 92% connected

Whole.

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Jam 92% connected

A kind of frock for children.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Jumble 92% connected

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mess 92% connected

Mass; church service.

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Pickle 92% connected

See Picle.

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Puddle 92% connected

A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

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Smother 92% connected

To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to…

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Welter 92% connected

To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.

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