Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fuddle

1 sense of fuddle

Sense 1
clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother -- (a confused multitude of things)
       => disorderliness, disorder -- (a condition in which things are not in their expected places; "the files are in complete disorder")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb fuddle

3 senses of fuddle

Sense 1
befuddle, fuddle -- (make stupid with alcohol)
       => intoxicate, soak, inebriate -- (make drunk (with alcoholic drinks))

Sense 2
drink, booze, fuddle -- (consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night")
       => consume, ingest, take in, take, have -- (serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee")

Sense 3
confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate -- (be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher")
       => be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")

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