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  • adjective In disarray, mixed up.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of jumble.

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  • adjective in utter disorder

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Examples

  • Characters are introduced in short, jumbled snippets.

    G4TV - The Feed 2009

  • She gets some typed-up speech, one page, with the letters of each word jumbled up.

    Assignment Sheldon Lee Compton 2011

  • ** Chapter Nineteen My feelings were jumbled, which is not a good posture for a clinical psychologist during a crisis.

    Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1998

  • ** Chapter Nineteen My feelings were jumbled, which is not a good posture for a clinical psychologist during a crisis.

    Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1998

  • The dark cover designed by art director Carole Otypka has the letters of the magazine's title jumbled along the bottom of the page, instead of the top.

    The Seattle Times 2012

  • My feelings were jumbled, which is not a good posture for a clinical psychologist during a crisis.

    Critical Conditions White, Stephen, 1951- 1001

  • You know you made a really interesting comment that sometimes all these numbers get kind of jumbled up.

    CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009 2009

  • The facts, as they stand, are always kind of jumbled and rambling too.

    I Spy With My Little Eye, Something That Rhymes with Vaughnfest fusenumber8 2007

  • And then it all kind of jumbled into one dish, finished with sour cream.

    Red Wine Pork Stroganoff 2007

  • HOLMES: It was German and English in there, but they were kind of jumbled, you couldn't make it out.

    CNN Transcript May 14, 2007 2007

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