Definition of addled
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: thrown into confusion : confused
his addled brain/mind … vainly endeavouring to master some task … which, to the addled brain of the crushed boy of nineteen, was a sealed and hopeless mystery.— Charles Dickens
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The first known use of addled was in 1599
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