(a.) Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.
(v. t. & i.) To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.
(v. t. & i.) To earn by labor.
(v. t. & i.) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
Example Sentences:
(1) I also don't particularly want to be reminded of my drug-addled, self-obsessed teenage antics.
(2) I just don’t know, but at least every time I hear this great piece of music I can picture all this and more in my tiny drug-addled mind.
(3) In a sense, the ABB's petition is encouraging, since it suggests that eight years mainlining easy cash has addled their brains.
(4) If the automatic budget cuts are a brick wall, the Democrats and Republicans are the addled maniacs fighting for control of the wheel as they drive straight for it.
(5) But I find myself too addled by the fact of Hamm's handsomeness, and also his celebrity, to make much sense.
(6) It even becomes, in the mind of some of its more addled fanatics, a universal language.
(7) Cracked Actor – Alan Yentob’s BBC documentary of the 1974 US tour, revealing a frail, coke-addled Bowie on the edge of dissolution, as weird and remote as his role in The Man Who Fell to Earth – was very much the exception.
(8) With his contortionist’s body, vulnerability, pale skin and fierce red hair, he didn’t suit the classical white ballets; it took the visceral, addled heroes of Kenneth MacMillan and new, abstract choreographers to turn him into a star.
(9) MacFarlane was also recently in trouble after hosting a televised comedy "roasting" of the drug and drink-addled Charlie Sheen that played relentlessly on the cruel notion that the actor would soon be dead.
(10) They come with a reputation, built on a drug-addled lifestyle and wild, willy-waving gigs.
(11) In fact, he says, "it was all a drug-addled circus and journalists who also knew that were part of the fraud, reporting on the cyclists as if they were heroes when they knew they were not".
(12) House speaker John Boehner to resign after battle with conservatives Read more It was fitting because, over the past five years, Boehner himself has presided over a far less decorous and infinitely more fractious show of ardent faith, as the House Republican majority has been inundated with true believers in the government-hating, austerity-addled Tea Party gospel.
(13) The news led me to wonder whether Lidl's appeal now extends beyond cherry-addled teenagers and to that holy grail of the advertising executive, the ordinary family.
(14) The mass killing of Afghan civilians by a US soldier in Kandahar was a shocking reminder of an enduring truth of this decade-old conflict: the efforts of thousands of people over many years at a cost of billions can be undone in a few seconds by the actions of a single, hate-addled individual.
(15) The freewheeling optimism of the 1960s had given way to the drug-addled reality of the 1970s and they were battered and bruised from 16 years on the road.
(16) Inherent Vice is the story of drug-addled Larry "Doc" Sportello, a private detective who gets pulled into a murder investigation after taking on a case from an ex-girlfriend.
(17) Is it, as Franzen and the others fear, turning kids into emoticon-addled zombies, unable to connect, unable to think, form a coherent thought or even make eye contact?
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest As much as Hologram Tupac undoubtedly blew the festival-addled minds of Coachella attendees on Sunday, there was also a sense of inevitability about it.
(19) It is feasible too that Frey's booze-soaked, crack-addled brain did remember events differently from the way they occurred; after all, a large section of his life exists like a half-remembered drunken night out.
(20) Colin Welland's great fat arse and great shorts addling, sploshing through mud, making aeroplane noises, and chewing on an apple, and I thought, oh, you know, it's going to be one of those dire, dread embarrassments, because it ain't gonna work.
Oiling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oil
Example Sentences:
(1) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(3) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
(4) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
(5) Work conditions and the health status in workers of Bashkirian oil enterprises are characterized.
(6) Group-2 mares (n = 32) were given a single dose of progesterone (625 mg, IM) in sesame oil.
(7) However, this inhibition was not found in rats treated with castor oil for 3 d. Moreover, 5-HT concentration in the midbrain significantly decreased in rats that acquired the adaptability for the occurrence of diarrhea.
(8) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
(9) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(10) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
(11) Both fatty acid composition and the degree of lipid peroxidation were measured in this study in 23 OTC fish oil preparations.
(12) The effects of flaxseed oil on tissue amounts of individual saturated fatty acids were minimal, but amounts of monounsaturated fatty acids, especially C18:1, were depressed.
(13) Despite 50 years of criminalisation, illicit drugs are now the third most valuable industry in the world, after food and oil.
(14) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(15) If battery and EV prices fall more rapidly over the period, and the price of oil increases more rapidly, replacing the fleet with EVs could be cost-neutral.
(16) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
(17) Interest in the antithrombotic potential of diets enriched with fish oil-derived polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 PUFAs) prompted us to examine how these fatty acids, when taken preoperatively, affect hemostasis, plasma lipid levels, and production of prostacyclin (PGI2) by vascular tissues in atherosclerotic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
(18) A few blocks away there are streets full of empty buildings, signs that the oil boom of the past decade is long past.
(19) The latter oil mixture resulted in a predictable reduction in kidney PGE2 and 6-keto PGF1 alpha (hydrolysis product of PGI2), aortic 6-keto PGF1 alpha and serum TXB2.
(20) The medium-chain triglyceride oil supplementation did not influence the growth of these infants.