verb
- to confuse or muddle someone’s thinking
- to make someone intoxicated with alcohol
Usage: informal
Examples
- The complex instructions fuddled the new employees.
- Too much information at once will fuddle your brain.
- The wine had fuddled his judgment completely.
- Don’t let the technical jargon fuddle you.
- The medication fuddled her thoughts for hours.
- He was thoroughly fuddled after the long celebration.