(v. t.) To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
(v. i.) To drink to excess.
Example Sentences:
(1) As it was any spectators crammed into the gangways of court 16 expecting high courtroom drama will have left as many have before: baffled and generally wrung out by the mind-fuddling complexities of chancery proceedings.
(2) So we’re familiar with the rising anger that grips you and refuses to let go, inching its way into your extremities, fuddling your mind with rage, competing with your every thought until you just can’t take it any more and you have to send a sternly worded email with MUGS!
Ruddle
Definition:
(v. t.) To raddle or twist.
(n.) A riddle or sieve.
(n.) A species of red earth colored by iron sesquioxide; red ocher.
(v. t.) To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge.
Example Sentences:
(1) These assignments are consistent with published data (Ruddle, 1973).