What's the difference between addled and morbid?

Addled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Addle

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.

Morbid


Definition:

  • (a.) Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
  • (2) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
  • (3) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
  • (4) There appears to be no risk of morbidity or mortality.
  • (5) The diseases of airways had the highest contribution to the coefficient of morbidity.
  • (6) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
  • (7) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
  • (8) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
  • (9) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
  • (10) By vaccinating adult dogs in boarding kennels the morbidity rate dropped from 83.5% to 6.5% and the mortality rate from 4.1% to 0.5%.
  • (11) Higher anxiety, depression and psychiatric morbidity scores were reported by all patients at 6 and, to a lesser extent, at 12 weeks with greater differences in women.
  • (12) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
  • (13) All of these factors make morbidity and mortality associated with penetrating injuries low.
  • (14) Greater knowledge about these disorders and closer working relationships with mental health specialists should lead to decreased morbidity and mortality.
  • (15) Although some modes of therapy are effective, there is a significant associated morbidity and mortality.
  • (16) A patient died after gastric surgery for morbid obesity.
  • (17) A retrospective study was conducted into 136 patients who had received surgical treatment for perforated gastroduodenal ulcers, with the view to establishing postoperative lethality and morbidity (comparing simple suturing with definitive ulcer surgery).
  • (18) The fetal monitoring (electronical and gasanalytical) is able to acknowledge in due time a hypoxic situation and procures favourable to the perinatal morbidity.
  • (19) The time for cervical dilatation from 7 to 10 cm and duration of the second stage of labor did not influence maternal morbidity or fetal outcome, regardless of the method of anesthesia.
  • (20) The morbidity and mortality rates among the mothers and children are low.