muddle vs streamline

muddle

noun
  • A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler. 

  • A mixture; a confusion; a garble. 

verb
  • To dabble in mud. 

  • To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. 

  • To think and act in a confused, aimless way. 

  • To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. 

  • To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. 

  • To make turbid or muddy. 

  • To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. 

streamline

verb
  • To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid. 

  • To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency. 

  • To modernise. 

noun
  • On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind. 

  • A line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow. 

How often have the words muddle and streamline occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )