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Additional Member System
additional principal payment
additionality
additionally
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additive identity
additive inverse
additive printing
addle
address
address harvester
addressee
adduce
adduct
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addle

ad·dle [ ádd'l ] (past and past participle ad·dled, present participle ad·dling, 3rd person present singular ad·dles)


transitive and intransitive verb 
Definition:
 
1. befuddle: to confuse or muddle somebody, or become confused or muddled

2. rot: to make something rotten or spoiled, or become rotten or spoiled

[ Old English adela "filth, liquid manure" < Germanic]
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