addle – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
addle
v.
muddle, confuse; become confused; spoil, become rotten; make rotten
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addle
Verb
1. mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues"
(synonym) muddle, puddle
(hypernym) jumble, confuse, mix up
2. become rotten; "addled eggs"
(hypernym) spoil, go bad
Addle
(v. t. & i.)
To thrive or grow; to ripen.
(v. t. & i.)
To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.
(v. t. & i.)
To earn by labor.
(n.)
Liquid filth; mire.
(n.)
Lees; dregs.
(a.)
Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
addle
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
