verb
- Mix up or confuse.
- usage: "He muddled the issues"
- Become rotten.
- usage: "addled eggs"
- synonyms: addle
adjective
- Of eggs. ( no longer edible)
- usage: "an addled egg"
- Confused and vague; used especially of thinking.
- usage: "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas"
- synonyms: befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded
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