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Muddle up
verb
To confuse (one or more objects with another object or other objects)
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"We mustn't muddle up Theresa May with a champion for equality," she says.
I really want to muddle up vegetables with plants but dogs stymie this one.
All the policy is in small writing [so] make it bigger [so] it doesn't muddle up my brain to digest".
The layout inside was confusing, and I spent ages trying to understand how they could muddle up flour, wine, batteries and beer.
They don't turn into bats, and they aren't affected by garlic, but their low-level psychic powers do lead them to muddle up the present and the future.
He's certainly not being concise, since the six words between "Texting" and "is" serve only to muddle up a simple, if too sweeping, assertion.
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But we even muddled up this history.
But this point gets muddled up in two rather less conclusive ones.
She's made the odd flub or three, including muddling up her revolutionary history.
The map in last week's special report on EU enlargement stupidly muddled up Slovakia and Slovenia.
A few muddled up the names of father and son in their chants.
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