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jumble

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1. jumble - Noun

2. jumble - Verb

Meaning

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly.

A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.

A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The kingdom is not an amorphous jumble of regions, but a closely organized state in which the character of one region is close to that of its neighbor. There are few sharp boundaries. Rather, the landscape is largely characterized by transitions ... Peter Atkins

Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp. Roger Ebert

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. Emil Cioran

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today. Frederick Soddy

We don't have to know, only to be: let go the jumble of worn words, reason and vanity. H.D.

When the husband is a hen and the wife is a cock, the house is in a jumble. Sicilian Proverb

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