jumble
Other forms: jumbled; jumbles; jumbling
When you jumble something, you throw a bunch of items haphazardly together. For example, many people jumble many random things in a kitchen junk drawer.
Use the verb jumble to describe what happens when you scramble or mix things up. Some kids, for example, jumble their Lego toys together in a big bin, while others like to sort the pieces by color or size. You can call the mix of items itself a jumble too. In the early 1500s, jumble meant "to move confusedly," and it was probably modeled on stumble. Later that century, it came to mean "mix or confuse."
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assemble without order or sense“She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence”type of:assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack togethercreate by putting components or members together
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bring into random ordersynonyms: scramble, throw together
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be all mixed up or jumbled together
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a confused multitude of thingstypes:rummagea jumble of things to be given awaytype of:
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a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideassynonyms: hodgepodge, patchworktype of:theorya belief that can guide behavior
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small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie
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