to jumble
22
3.8
- verb
- /ˈdʒʌmbəl/
:
revolver
- When organizing his notes, he accidentally jumbled them together with unrelated papers.
- jumbled together
- get it all jumbled
And it pulls from images all over and jumble stuff up to make what you're saying.
- And it pulls from images all over and jumble stuff up to make what you're saying.
- Man, it's kind of painful to pull all these packets out and jumble them all up right after I got done organizing them.
- I have dyslexia so sometimes I jumble, jumble my shit.
Examples
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The city of Tyrsis rose around them, fortress walls, spiraled towers, and jumbled buildings of stone and wood.
Fiction book (1991) -
Yeah, your body suffered a tremendous trauma... so sometimes things can get jumbled up in there.
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Or does everything get jumbled in your head?
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I mean, it was jumbled with everything else.
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Everything after that is just really jumbled.
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The thoughts were too jumbled; too much had happened in too short a time.
Fiction book (1991) -
Like somehow the memories got jumbled around?
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Left and right--they just get jumbled up in my head, and I can't do anything about it.
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As she worked, she peered into the old trunks jumbled with clothing and articles from days gone by.
Fiction book (1993) -
When you're trying to remember, you get frustrated, you stumble, you mumble, you jumble up your sentences.
Synonyms
365
1.0
Change the order of things so they are random
248
1.0
To make something untidy or dirty
85
2.6
Mix eggs quickly while cooking until they become soft and fluffy
65
2.7
To make people confused and things messy
46
3.7
To twist things together so they are hard to pull apart
38
1.9
Mix things up so their order is not clear
34
3.3
Mix together so things join and are hard to tell apart
33
4.8
Mix things up so they are unclear
22
3.5
Make something quickly without much care or planning
20
2.7
To mix things like cards or songs so their order is random
7
5.5
To make something untidy or not in its usual order
6
5.2
Mix together so the parts are hard to tell apart
6
4.9
Twist things together so they are hard to separate
6
7.1
To make something more confused or tangled
5
7.4
To mix different things into one
4
4.5
To make something lose its order or structure
3
3.4
To put things together in a mixed and untidy pile
1
5.6
To make things untidy or cause confusion
1
7.8
Make things tangled or blocked so progress slows
1
4.7
Mix cards so their order becomes random
Make plans or other things confused and messy again after they were sorted
Make something quickly and carelessly using what you have
Antonyms
Compounds
How Mixed
46
3.7
85
2.6
22
3.8
33
4.8
- Informal
65
2.7
416
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jumble is easy to picture: imagine things 'jumping' together into a confused pile, like papers blown into a mess. So jumble means to mix things together in a confused or disordered way.