verb
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(provincial) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
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(provincial) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
verb
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To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle
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To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.
adjective
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(of eggs) Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.
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Confused; mixed up.
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Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.
Examples of addled in a Sentence
When he lifted his head, her thoughts were too addled for her to focus on anything more than the sensations of the body against hers.
Her senses addled, Deidre was forced to retreat.
I should have known better, but by this time hunger and weariness had so addled my brain that I took his advice.
Her mind was, in any case, too addled to play Bridge with them any more.
Inexplicably more unfocused and drug addled than the car crash of distortion previously displayed.
Deidre glowed darkly with the Dark One's power and something else, an aura that drew his gaze and left him feeling slightly addled.