Crossword-Solution: ADDLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Addle | n. | Liquid filth; mire. |
| Addle | n. | Lees; dregs. |
| Addle | a. | Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. |
| Addle | v. t. & i. | To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. |
| Addle | v. t. & i. | To earn by labor. |
| Addle | v. t. & i. | To thrive or grow; to ripen. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| ADDLE | anagram | DEDAL, ELDAD, LADED |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ADDLE (5)
Tillie was a queer, addle-pated thing, as flighty as a girl at thirty-five, and overweeningly fond of gay clothes—which taste, as Mrs.
And, as to hopes of a glorious resurrection, I’ve often heard him say masel’ that he hoped he’d go to hell, for his mother was so pious that she’d be sure to go to heaven, an’ he didn’t want to addle where she was.
And those idiots of policemen! They ordered me on, and I couldn't turn for a street car coming, so I called to one of them that the girl we wanted was down the street, and he looked at me like an addle-pate and said, 'What girl? Move on or you'll get in a jam here.' You can use me for a football if I don't go back and smash him.
Seems as if a woman couldn't respect such an addle-pate as I am lately.” “Don't you worry about that,” advised the doctor.
But there’s Mills, now, sits i’ the chimney-corner and reads the paper pretty nigh from morning to night, and when he’s got to th’ end on’t he’s more addle-headed than he was at the beginning.
Quotes with ADDLE (2)
You baffle me, addle me, drive me insane. You muddle, befuddle, and rattle my brain. My senses are mad, Skewed judgment to blame. You drive me half stark-raving bonkers!(But the truly crazy thing is how I love it.)
You don’t have to spend much time with the elderly or those with terminal illness to see how often medicine fails the people it is supposed to help. The waning days of our lives are given over to treatments that addle our brains and sap our bodies for a sliver’s chance of benefit. They are spent in institutions — nursing homes and intensive care units — where regimented, anonymous routines cut us off from all the things that matter to us in life. Our reluctance to honestly ex…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 428 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).