addle
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The delayed signing policy - players arriving in waves after the Champions League damage has been done - really addles the brain.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025
That is the vision that addles the heads of the two principal characters in the subplot�the student Seryozha and his girl Katya.
From Time Magazine Archive
Time robs the old lady of her hearing, dims her eyesight and addles her mind, so that sometimes she kneels in prayer before a color picture of Christ, sometimes before the stuffed parrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Th' wife's varry nearly brokken daan,— Shoo addles all we get, Wol aw goa skulkin all throo th' taan, I' sorrow, rags an debt.
From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John
It isn't what a chap addles, it's what a chap saves 'at makes him rich.
From Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour from his Popular Writings by Hartley, John
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