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Definition

mix up or confuse

Much more rarely, addled can refer to an egg whose embryo is dead.

addled = mixed up or confused

addled = confused

Jack heard the words too, but it took a moment for his addled brain to understand their meaning.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

addled = not thinking clearly

By the entrance to the compound a few rabbits hopped aimlessly, too addled by their sudden freedom to make a break for it.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

addled = mixed up or confused

I needed to keep his addled attention on my questions.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

addled = not thinking clearly

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."
Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan

addled = confused

Grasping at an addled resolution, he began to stir.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

addled = mixed up or confused

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.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

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.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

addled = confused

It is a sign, I think, of how addled I was with love and fear and no sleep, that it took me so long to realize: that stinging insects should not come in battalions, and ten falling pots in a morning was beyond even my tired clumsiness.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

addled = mixed up or confused

But she counted and counted till she got that addled she'd start to count in the basket for a spoon sometimes; and so, three times they come out right, and three times they come out wrong.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

addled = mixed up or confused

The old cracking sound, the tearing of flesh, and then they were fish no more, but twelve rams, fat and addled.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

addled = confused

Dodge picked up his pace when they passed Heart Palace—now fallen into disrepair and occupied by stimulant—addled squatters-on their way to the Five Spires of Redd construction site.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

addled = not thinking clearly

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,...
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Had the battle, the bruisings, the flaming addled her brain?
Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
Harry is as sane as you or I. That scar upon his forehead has not addled his brains.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
They sat him down, addled, among themselves, and took charge of the double-handled cup.
Homer -- The Iliad
The trick with addled old folks was to be agreeable.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Chains
Sadie says my brain was just addled.
Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
He was ridiculed as old, addled, and toothless.
David McCullough -- John Adams

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