addle vs puzzle

addle

verb
  • To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle 

  • 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, earn by labor; earn money or one's living. 

  • To thrive or grow; to ripen. 

noun
  • A foolish or dull-witted fellow. 

adj
  • Unfruitful or confused; muddled. 

  • Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid. 

puzzle

verb
  • To make intricate; to entangle. 

  • To think long and carefully, in bewilderment. 

  • To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation. 

noun
  • Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of. 

  • A riddle. 

  • The state of being puzzled; perplexity. 

  • A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete. 

  • A jigsaw puzzle. 

  • A crossword puzzle. 

How often have the words addle and puzzle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )