Dictionary Entry
addle
addle is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, adjective, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Liquid filth; mire. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Liquid filth; mire.
- 2noun
Lees; dregs.
- 3adjective
Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.
- 4transitive/intransitive verb
To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.
- 5transitive/intransitive verb
To earn by labor.
- 6transitive/intransitive verb
To thrive or grow; to ripen.
- 7verb
become rotten
"addled eggs"
- 8verb
mix up or confuse
"He muddled the issues"
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