Sample Sentences for
addle
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    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)
    addled = confused
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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)
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    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
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    Grasping at an addled resolution, he began to stir.  (source)
    addled = mixed up or confused
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    Getting hit in the head like that can make you addle-minded and confused.†  (source)
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    From this vantage point I am not altogether sure; but if only the latter, perhaps I have been well repaid, as in the whole affair, I may have been engaged on a wild goose chase, or a fruitless pursuit of shadows, and have come near to addling my own wits, in my assiduous attempts to unpick those of another.†  (source)
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    It addles women's brains.†  (source)
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    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
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    They intentionally mispronounce the stately diplomat's name, calling him "Addle-Eye."†  (source)
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    Petrol fumes were addling her brain.†  (source)
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    "All that cement ["see-ment," he says] addles the brain."†  (source)
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    Jack heard the words too, but it took a moment for his addled brain to understand their meaning.  (source)
    addled = not thinking clearly
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    I dim the eyes and addle the brain.†  (source)
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