Word Definition

Addle

  1. Liquid filth; mire.
  2. To earn by labor.
  3. Lees; dregs.
  4. To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.
  5. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.
  6. To thrive or grow; to ripen.

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