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UK
/ˈædəl/
]
[ US /ˈædəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈædəɫ/ ]
VERB
-
mix up or confuse
He muddled the issues -
become rotten
addled eggs
How To Use addle In A Sentence
- We paddled a little boat in the West Lake.
- The four of us stayed for a couple of nights in the Rest House at Takoradi, which gave us a few hours to walk the beaches and paddle in the ocean, and to luxuriate in the fresh sea breezes after the heavy atmosphere of the interior.
- Employers and business groups contend that a higher minimum wage would saddle them with higher labor costs.
- Season with salt and pepper and tie string around each saddle to secure the caul fat.
- The double nosewheel straddled the slots in the deck where the shuttle ran. THE SHADOWS OF POWER
- It is also her misfortune to have been saddled with an unappetisingly needy role. Times, Sunday Times
- He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
- Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace
- Cleland was occupied with his visual recorder, surveyor, gravitometer, and whatever else he could wield in the saddle, or simply with gazing around. Starfarers
- I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland