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[juhm-buhl]

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verb (used with object)

to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order: You've jumbled up all the cards.

to confuse mentally; muddle.

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verb (used without object)

to be mixed together in a disorderly heap or mass.

to meet or come together confusedly.

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noun

a mixed or disordered heap or mass: a jumble of paper clips, rubber bands, and string.

a confused mixture; medley.

a state of confusion or disorder.

Also, jum·bal. a small, round, flat cake or cookie with a hole in the middle.

Origin:
1520–30; perhaps blend of joll to bump (now dial.) and tumble

Related forms

jum·ble·ment, noun

jum·bler, noun

jum·bling·ly, adverb

un·jum·bled, adjective

Synonyms
7. muddle, hodgepodge; farrago, gallimaufry; mess; chaos.

Antonyms
1. separate. 7. order.

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Example Sentences

Amid the temporary jumble of books, papers and cartons, a new academic year took shape.

Their contents spill out in a jumble of soiled laundry.

The monument's history is a jumble of legend and fact.

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Amid the temporary jumble of books, papers and cartons, a new academic year took shape.

Their contents spill out in a jumble of soiled laundry.

The monument's history is a jumble of legend and fact.

The jumble of large gray bodies punctuated by pink eyes and ears made for a compelling image.

He might as well have been copying a meaningless jumble of lines.

The original kitchen was a cramped, haphazard jumble.

If all your genes did churn away, your body would become a hideous, useless jumble.

Its controls are based on more understandable brands and ad categories, rather than a jumble of obscure ad-network names.

Out of him comes tumbling a jumble of clichés from the radical left.

Otherwise the angles do not line up and a disorienting jumble results.

Directly in front of me, off through the haze, the unlikely urban jumble of downtown rises.

Mainstream economics is the empiricist jumble that you have identified.

Photo montage shows a jumble of overgrown plants and brick paving in the backyard.

When he catches up, his attempt to describe his awe comes out in a jumble.

Rome, a glorious jumble of history and art, changes slowly.

Increasingly, though, some are a social jumble within themselves.

Callisto, by contrast, shows no signs of tectonics and is much more of a jumble on the inside.

Change the topic, however, and his voice would jumble again.

Schor has been hacking intrepidly through the jumble of available data quantifying the last decade's consumption spree.

He had set out on his great walk for a jumble of reasons, but mostly to have fun.

Accommodations at the rustic jumble of logs and stone are old-school: family-style meals, bunk beds, and shared rooms.

To test this theory he persuaded kids in eight schools to jumble clipped and unclipped string in boxes and report the results.

Interest rates, affected by a jumble of conflicting forces, are likely to stay close to the high levels they reached last week.

It is a work to which the novel and nonfiction jumble.

She is bringing together two opposing forces in a juicy jumble of creative conflict.

He knows they're easily startled and will fly up in a jumble if they are.

The city is a chaotic jumble of subway construction, cracked sidewalks abutting brand-new luxury hotels, and endless noise.

Among the jumble of grievances, the youth activists complain of oppression.

Oil firms' jumble of less profitable sidelines-from renewable energy to shipping-might be hard to sell in one.

The first settlement was a jumble of canvas tents, clapboard shops and saloons clustered near a muddy creek.

There is a battered notebook computer on the front seat and a jumble of wires connected to a small camera clamped to the dash.

We transfer only a small jumble of drops from different faucets, not a continuous, coherent stream.

The words tumbled out in an incoherent jumble interrupted by heaving shoulders and gales of cackling laughter.

The jumble of crosses and melancholy statues definitely adds to the gothic feel of this strange corner.

What breathes life into a lifeless jumble of chemicals is the way those pieces fit together and work together".

But the country is a jumble of volcanoes, one of which is still active.

The jumble of rock, gravel, and dirt making up ground moraines is called till.

One is a series of ten rods of different lengths-you shake to jumble them and then drag them back into place.

Long oak tables and benches, as well as the restaurant's name, turn out to be an accurate index of the food here: a jumble of.

So mixed is this jumble of a show, though, that any curatorial ideas are buried under trivial images.

The only remotely notable thing about this particular jumble of boos.

From a jumble of self-promotion and fragmented wisdom, however, two events did rise up into a kind of binding coherence.

All the tumult is couched in a jumble of jargon that is confusing and infuriating.

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World English Dictionary

jumble (ˈdʒʌmb^əl)

—vb
1.	to mingle (objects, papers, etc) in a state of disorder
2.	(tr; usually passive) to remember in a confused form; muddle

—n
3.	a disordered mass, state, etc
4.	(Brit) articles donated for a jumble sale
5.	Also called: jumbal a small thin cake, usually ring-shaped

[C16: of uncertain origin]

'jumbler

—n

'jumbly

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

jumble

1529, originally "to move confusedly," perhaps coined on model of stumble, tumble, etc. In 17c., it was yet another euphemism for "have sex with" (a sense first attested 1582). The noun meaning "a confused mixture" is from 1661.

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