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Sentences with addle

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  • I suppose the shock had addled his poor old brain. [VERB noun]
  • addle-brained
  • Turning the invasive ants into addle -brained wanderers is the latest attempt to control the non-native species.
  • Judging from the quality of our debate on natural resource policy, all it takes to addle the political mind in California is water.
  • addlebrained
  • addle eggs.
  • Alcohol are so arcane and applied with such apparent randomness that just finding a drink may addle their brains more than the altitude.
  • But prove to them that you are a tribal African, not one of those addle -brained former slaves.
  • To ADDLE† v. n. Dr. Johnson calls this word obsolete. Mr. Boucher defines it "to earn by working," and considers it as a Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Cumberland, and Cheshire word; derived from the Sax. æðlean, or eðlean, merces, retributio, renumeratio, whence also addlings, wages received for work. A gentleman has informed me, that in Nottinghamshire, and throughout the north, with some variation of sound, addle and addlings are now in use. He has also obligingly explained the use of the word by [Thomas] Tusser, whom Dr. Johnson cites. "Ivy will so embrace a tree as not only to prevent its encrease, but to kill it. Tusser therefore advises to kill the ivy, or the tree will not addle, that is, will not earn or produce any other profit to its owner. "
  • Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more. – Thomas Tusser.
  • "Their eggs were addled. " William Cowper.
  • The term shocking or addling trout and salmon eggs is applied to the process of turning the infertile eggs white so they can be separated from the fertile ones. Actually, this amounts to nothing more than agitating the eggs enough to rupture the yolk membrane in the infertile eggs, which causes them to turn white.
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