Meaning of bemuddle | Babel Free

Definitions

to confuse, distort

archaic

Examples

“He is swallowed up, body and soul, in law; he eats, drinks, plays (at the card table) Law, nothing but Law. He acts Ignoramus in the play⟳ so thoroughly, that you w'd swear⟳ that in the inmost marrow of his head (is not this the proper anatomical term?) there have⟳ housed themselves not devils but pettifoggers, to bemuddle with their noisy chatter his own⟳ and his friends' wits.”

“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.”

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