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addle

/ad-l/US // ˈæd l //UK // (ˈædəl) //

加德勒,瘾君子,加德纳,加德士

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Definitions

  1. 1

    ad·dled, ad·dling.

    • : to make or become confused.
    • : to make or become rotten, as eggs.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : mentally confused; muddled.
    • : rotten: addle eggs.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • To Richard and to Musa there were homage and flattery enough to addle wiser wits than theirs.

  • The fact was that there may have been an addle-pated Red among the mill hands of that time, but if there was I had never met him.

  • I wonder they had not abandoned it; for a crack of light into a wren's nest would certainly addle the eggs.

  • You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed predecessors; now, don't you?

  • But says I to my eye, Addle Wildenheim has two much spirit of her own to covet her neighbour's goods.

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