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  • Stella doesn't say anything for a long time. "Never mind," she finally says. "I don't know what I was thinking. The pain is making me addled."  (source)
    addled = confused
  • To a greater and greater degree his life revolved around a self-administered pharmacopoeia of steroids, amphetamines, mood elevators, and painkillers, and the drugs addled his once-formidable mind.  (source)
  • The old cracking sound, the tearing of flesh, and then they were fish no more, but twelve rams, fat and addled.  (source)
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  • Grasping at an addled resolution, he began to stir.  (source)
    addled = mixed up or confused
  • Aunt Addle from a religious school in Huntsville, Alabama.†  (source)
  • Because, you know, when you get scared that way, and it keeps running on, and getting worse and worse all the time, and your wits gets to addling,...  (source)
    addling = confusing
  • "All that cement ["see-ment," he says] addles the brain."†  (source)
    addles = confuses
  • But it sounded like gibberish, and everyone thought she was addled except for Mom, who understood her perfectly and said she had an excellent vocabulary.  (source)
    addled = confused
  • "Why, Addle," pa says, "him and Darl went to make one more load.†  (source)
  • Petrol fumes were addling her brain.†  (source)
    addling = confusing
  • Too much heat addles the brain.†  (source)
    addles = confuses
  • By the entrance to the compound a few rabbits hopped aimlessly, too addled by their sudden freedom to make a break for it.  (source)
    addled = mixed up or confused
  • You'll addle your brain, that's what you'll do, Philip.'†  (source)
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