muddle

/ˈmʌdl/ verb

Translation

get sb/sth muddled up › to think that a person or thing is someone or something else

karıştırmak, yanılmak; birini/bir şeyi başkasına/başka bir şeye benzetmek

I often get Jonathan and his brother muddled up.1074

muddle through (sth) phrasal verb

› to manage to do something although you do not know how to do it well

bilmemesine rağmen yapmayı başarmak; üstesinden gelmek; bir şekilde halletmek

None of us has any formal training but somehow we muddle through.1877

muddle sth up phrasal verb

› to arrange things in the wrong order

karma karışık etmek; karıştırmak, dağıtmak, düzenini berbat etmek

Please don't muddle up those books - I've just sorted them out.1074

(Definition of muddle verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that they are not worth having

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