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English Dictionary: addled by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
addled
adj
  1. (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"
  2. confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas"
    Synonym(s): addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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. [bd]Their eggs were addled.[b8] --Cowper.
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