1. Mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently
   "the flood of questions left her bewildered and fuddled";
   - confused
    
2. [informal] Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got fuddled in the bar downstairs";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], soused [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], drunk, bombed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], stinko [informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], blootered [UK, dialect], paralytic [Brit, informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], swacked [N. Amer, informal], steaming [informal], trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], tanked up [informal], screwed [informal], lit up [slang], wasted [informal], out of it [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], blitzed [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]

1. Confuse or leave at a loss because of something complex or difficult to understand
   "These questions fuddle even the experts";
   - confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate [informal], perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, dumbfound
    
2. Make stupid with alcohol
   "The multiple cocktails fuddled his thinking";
   - befuddle
    
3. Consume alcohol
   "We were up fuddling all night";
   - hit the bottle [informal], drink, booze [informal]

See also: addlebrained [informal], addled, addlepated [informal], befogged, befuddled, clouded, dazed, dazzled, drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, muddled, muddleheaded, muzzy, perplexed, puddingheaded [informal], punch-drunk, ripped [informal], silly, skunked [informal], slaphappy [informal], spaced-out [informal], stunned, stupefied, stupid, trancelike, woolly, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, wooly [N. Amer], wooly-minded [N. Amer]

Type of: affect, bear on, bear upon, consume, have, impact, inebriate, ingest, intoxicate, soak, take, take in

Encyclopedia: Fuddle