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Befuddle   /bɪfˈədəl/   Listen
Befuddle

verb
(past & past part. befuddled)
1.
Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.  Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw.  "This question completely threw me" , "This question befuddled even the teacher"
2.
Make stupid with alcohol.  Synonym: fuddle.



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"Befuddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... I returned his smile. In truth, physical violence could get me nothing in dealing with this fellow. I would have to try guile. And I saw now that his face was flushed and his eyes unnaturally bright. He had been drinking alcolite; not enough to befuddle him—but enough to make ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various

... the great World at large, the Press, the Pulpit?' (My brother is an Atlanta clergyman.) 'What would these great social forces say?' Confused ideas of my identity and importance arose like fumes to further befuddle me. I sat on the side, and in the middle of the bed, in despair—longing for something ...
— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald



Words linked to "Befuddle" :   mystify, flummox, baffle, bewilder, disconcert, be, beat, demoralize, get, flurry, nonplus, pose, perplex, intoxicate, inebriate, disorient, vex, disorientate, put off, dumbfound, soak, amaze, puzzle, gravel, stick, stupefy



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