Synonyms for Muddy the waters:

• v.

  •conceal, hide (verb)
  • obscure.
  •confuse, mix up (verb)
  • perplex.
  •disrupt (verb)
  • muck up,
  • mess up,
  • put off,
  • shake,
  • unsettle,
  • bollix,
  • rummage,
  • spoil,
  • rattle,
  • disturb,
  • psych out,
  • disorder,
  • discompose,
  • muddle,
  • mix up,
  • discombobulate,
  • throw,
  • screw up,
  • disarray,
  • rattle one's cage,
  • upset the apple cart,
  • agitate,
  • confuse.
  •obscure (verb)
  • eclipse,
  • cloak,
  • con,
  • disguise,
  • block out,
  • throw up smoke screen,
  • fuzz,
  • gray,
  • cloud,
  • belie,
  • adumbrate,
  • mist,
  • camouflage,
  • misrepresent,
  • murk,
  • blur,
  • equivocate,
  • blear,
  • overshadow,
  • cover,
  • shroud,
  • gloom,
  • befog,
  • mask,
  • blind,
  • dim,
  • overcloud,
  • haze,
  • stonewall,
  • double-talk,
  • becloud,
  • fog,
  • darken,
  • block,
  • screen,
  • obfuscate,
  • bedim,
  • cover up,
  • cloud the issue,
  • veil,
  • falsify,
  • shadow,
  • overcast,
  • shade,
  • wrap,
  • pettifog,
  • muddy.
  •perplex (verb)
  • encumber,
  • dumbfound,
  • balk,
  • tangle,
  • ravel,
  • astound,
  • entangle,
  • surprise,
  • thicken,
  • bewilder,
  • snarl up,
  • get to,
  • confound,
  • involve,
  • baffle,
  • perturb,
  • mystify,
  • pose,
  • astonish,
  • jumble,
  • muck,
  • nonplus,
  • puzzle,
  • stumble,
  • beset,
  • buffalo,
  • thwart,
  • befuddle,
  • stump,
  • complicate.

• Other synonyms:

  •disrupt
  • Disarraying,
  • bollixing,
  • mucked up,
  • disarrayed,
  • upset apple cart,
  • Muddy Waters,
  • bollixed,
  • psyched out.
  •obscure
  • Hazing,
  • glooming,
  • grayed,
  • covering up,
  • be cloud,
  • blinding,
  • muddies,
  • GRAYS,
  • befogged,
  • shrouding,
  • overcasting,
  • murking,
  • fuzzing,
  • murked,
  • befogs,
  • Shrouded,
  • Muddying,
  • covers up,
  • graying,
  • blinded,
  • fuzzed,
  • Gloomed,
  • Hazed,
  • Befogging,
  • overclouds,
  • overclouded,
  • muddied,
  • overclouding,
  • covered up.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • roil,
  • disrupt.

Antonyms for Muddy the waters:

• v.

  • disrupt
    compose, order, organize, appease, calm, ready, enlighten, soothe, help, clear up, explain, arrange.
  • obscure
    lay out, illuminate, loose, reveal, brighten, clear, unmask, open, lighten, clarify, uncover.
  • perplex
    assist, exclude, explicate, aid, untwist, bore, expect, untangle.