Usually means: Confuses, makes unable to think.
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  1. addles: Merriam-Webster
  2. addles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. addles: Vocabulary.com
  4. addles: Wordnik
  5. addles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. addles: Wiktionary
  7. addles: Dictionary.com
  8. addles: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. addles: Legal dictionary

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  1. addles: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (addle)

verb:  (provincial, Northern England) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
verb:  (provincial, Northern England) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
adjective:  Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.
adjective:  (by extension) Unfruitful or confused; muddled.
noun:  (obsolete) Liquid filth; mire.
verb:  To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle.
verb:  To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.
noun:  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
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