(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.
Perplex
Definition:
(a.) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
(a.) To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety.
(a.) To plague; to vex; to tormen.
(a.) Intricate; difficult.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perplexed, from being absorbed into some undateable future world governed by an advanced technology whose capacities have to be learned as one reads.
(2) The sergeant, listening in, was perplexed: "We obviously have, because I can hear you on the radio.
(3) Whether FcR-mediated signaling and receptor-mediated signaling involved in NK activity share specific biochemical intermediates is not known, but the involvement of tyrosine kinase function in the latter means of cytotoxicity may provide novel avenues for understanding the biochemical basis of this perplexing cellular function.
(4) The arteriogram correctly localized the precise site of hemorrhage in this perplexing case, and a complex surgical problem was simplified.
(5) The trauma-ready practice must also be cognizant of the some-times perplexing legal and insurance issues with regard to preventing and treating sport-related injuries.
(6) According to Lukyanov, the Kremlin is “perplexed” by Trump because it’s not clear what his priorities are nor whether he can work with Congress to achieve them.
(7) While treatment of a young woman with a dysgerminoma of 1 ovary is a matter of perplexity, we believe that a unilateral operation should be limited to those women who desire above all earthly things to retain their childbearing capacity.
(8) The most perplexing issues in pediatric dentistry today are related to the management of patients.
(9) "It is perplexing and preposterous to hear human rights complaints from the US, where torture and kidnapping are legal in the 21st century."
(10) It was a wretched goal to concede and the unfortunate truth for Mignolet is that moment reminded us why many Liverpool supporters are perplexed he has been awarded a new five-year contract.
(11) Instead, when we meet her at the beginning of the series, Nyborg is more concerned with moving house – presumably supplying viewers with shots of a variety of stylish new light fittings and perplexing floor plans to obsess over – than a political party with which she is increasingly disillusioned.
(12) I was [looks perplexed]: ‘Where’s the fabulous Madonna ?’ But it was still deeply interesting just to shake this tiny little hand, and say ‘You’re real’, because in the 80s, these people lived on plinths, they never came down to Earth.” This encounter made Patterson realise that celebrity per se didn’t exist.
(13) The implementation of library orientation and bibliographic instruction in health sciences centers presents some interesting as well as perplexing problems.
(14) It is now shown that the perplexity may be due to the possibility that the coenzyme (NAD) required for UDPG-D activity, may be acting as a substrate for a second dehydrogenase, namely xanthine dehydrogenase, which may utilize NAD as its substrate.
(15) Management of the patient with tinnitus is an extremely perplexing problem.
(16) Paul Salveson, author of a new book on the future of the railways, Railpolitik , is equally perplexed.
(17) Prematurity is one of the most perplexing problems in perinatal care.
(18) If chemical weapons were used, the timing of the attack is perplexing, the inspector said.
(19) Perplexing findings of cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP's) for determining the central sulcus during a craniotomy are reported in a case of brain tumor.
(20) As cellular and molecular approaches combine with physiologic techniques, new information will be available to address the clinical issues of luteal dysfunction which perplex us all.