The fumes of the wine were mounting steadily to addle his indifferent brains.
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Addle
//ˈæ.dəl//
Synonyms for "addle" (82 found)
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5 entriesderived
11 entrieshas context
2 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Translations
32 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- вмирисвам verb (to make addle)
- вмирисвам се verb (to grow addle)
- развалям verb (to make addle)
- развалям се verb (to grow addle)
Czech
4 entries- popletený adj (confused)
- zamlžený adj (confused)
- zkažený adj (rotten)
- zmatený adj (confused)
Finnish
1 entries- mätä adj (rotten)
Galician
1 entries- gorar verb (to grow addle)
German
4 entries- durcheinander adj (confused)
- verrottet adj (rotten)
- verwelkt adj (rotten)
- verwirrt adj (confused)
Hungarian
2 entries- záp adj (rotten)
- megzápul verb (to grow addle)
Middle English
1 entries- adel adj (rotten)
Russian
1 entries- ту́хлый adj (rotten)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pokvaren adj (rotten)
- покварен adj (rotten)
- pomesti verb (to make addle)
- smesti verb (to make addle)
Spanish
2 entries- confundir verb (to make addle)
- enturbiar verb (to make addle)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
Pan. Troilus! Why, he esteems her no more than I esteem an addle egg. Cres. If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' the shell.
Source: wiktionary
It was a feathered riddle; a mystery hatched out of an egg, and just as mysterious as if the egg had been addle!
Source: wiktionary
addle brains
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