verb Download 🔗Share (provincial) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living. Examples : ""My grandfather addled a good living working on the farm for fifty years." " job business economy work finance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (provincial) To thrive or grow; to ripen. Examples : "The young tomato plants quickly addled in the warm sun, growing strong and plump. " agriculture biology plant Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle Examples : "The heat and lack of sleep addled my brain, and I couldn't remember the answer to the simple math problem. " mind condition Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell. Examples : "The farmer carefully addled the eggs to prevent a potential outbreak of disease. " agriculture biology animal bird Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share (of eggs) Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo. Examples : "The farmer threw out the addled egg because it wouldn't hatch. " food biology animal Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share Confused; mixed up. Examples : "After staying up all night studying, her brain was so addled that she couldn't remember the simplest formulas during the test. " mind condition Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren. Examples : "The addled egg smelled strongly of sulfur, indicating it was rotten and unsafe to eat. " condition nature negative mind Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading