addled

1. 1

   simple past and past participle of addleform-ofparticiplepast

1. 1

   Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.

   • He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been—in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away—by the fervour of this reproach.
   • I haven’t a bit o’ patience with you—sitting on an addled egg for ever, as if there was never a fresh un in the world.
2. 2

   Confused; mixed up.figuratively

   • coke-addled
   • crack-addled
3. 3

   Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.obsolete

syn. addle