Noun

• S: (n) clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother (a confused multitude of things)
• S: (n) fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish (informal terms for a difficult situation) "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

Verb

• S: (v) muddle, puddle (make into a puddle) "puddled mire"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• sentence frame
• Somebody ----s something
• Something ----s something
• S: (v) addle, muddle, puddle (mix up or confuse) "He muddled the issues"