| Addle 1. (v.) To muddle; to make worthless; to become rotten; as, an addled mind, addled eggs. 2. (n.) Liquid filth; mire; Lees; dregs. 3. (a.) Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. 4. (v. t. & i.) To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. 5. (v. t. & i.) To earn by labor. 6. (v. t. & i.) To thrive or grow; to ripen. Thesaurus Entries 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 |