Usually means: Confuse, muddle, or scramble thoughts.
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  1. addle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. addle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. addle: Collins English Dictionary
  4. addle: Vocabulary.com
  5. Addle, addle: Wordnik
  6. addle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. addle: Wiktionary
  8. addle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. addle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. addle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Addle, addle: Dictionary.com
  12. addle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Addle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. addle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. addle: Rhymezone
  16. Addle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. addle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. addle: FreeDictionary.org
  19. addle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. addle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. addle, addle-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. addle: Merriam-Webster
  23. addle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. addle: Merriam-Webster

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  1. addle, addle-: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. addle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Addle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See addled as well.)

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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