addle

6 definitions found

addle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Addle \Ad"dle\, v. t. & i. [OE. adlen, adilen, to gain, acquire;
     prob. fr. Icel. ["o][eth]lask to acquire property, akin to
     o[eth]al property. Cf. Allodial.]
     1. To earn by labor. [Prov. Eng.] --Forby.
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     2. To thrive or grow; to ripen. [Prov. Eng.]
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              Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more. --Tusser.
        [1913 Webster] Addle-head
        Addle-brain

  Addle \Ad"dle\, n. [OE. adel, AS. adela, mud.]
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     1. Liquid filth; mire. [Obs.]
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     2. Lees; dregs. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
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  Addle \Ad"dle\, a.
     Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as
     eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains;
     muddled. --Dryden.
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  Addle \Ad"dle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Addled; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Addling.]
     To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his
     brain. "Their eggs were addled." --Cowper.
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addle - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  addle
      v 1: mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues" [syn: addle,
           muddle, puddle]
      2: become rotten; "addled eggs"

addle - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "addle":
     addle the wits, amaze, astound, baffle, ball up, bamboozle, beat,
     becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bemuse, besot, bewilder, boggle,
     bother, buffalo, bug, cloud, confound, confuse, daze, dazzle,
     discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorganize,
     disorient, distract, disturb, dumbfound, embarrass, entangle,
     flabbergast, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle,
     fuss, get, inebriate, intoxicate, keep in suspense, lick, maze,
     mist, mix up, moider, muddle, mystify, nonplus, perplex, perturb,
     pother, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, stick, stump,
     throw, throw into confusion, throw off, unsettle, upset