Difference between Puddle and Addle

What is the difference between Puddle and Addle?

Puddle as a noun is a small pool of water, usually on a path or road. while Addle as a noun is liquid filth; mire.

Puddle

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A small pool of water, usually on a path or road. A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To form a puddle. To play or splash in a puddle. To process iron by means of puddling. To line a canal with puddle (clay). To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.

Addle

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Liquid filth; mire.Lees; dregs. Wright

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid.Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. John Dryden.See addled.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain."Their eggs were addled." William Cowper.To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.To earn by labor. Forby.To thrive or grow; to ripen.

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