befuddle
English
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editbefuddle (third-person singular simple present befuddles, present participle befuddling, simple past and past participle befuddled)
- (transitive) To perplex, confuse (someone).
- The explanation left him completely befuddled.
- (transitive) To stupefy (someone), especially with alcohol.
- 1983, Basile Kerblay, Modern Soviet Society, page 290:
- ... to the American and French alcoholics, who drink in order to get drunk and befuddle the brain
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edit- See also Thesaurus:confuse
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editperplex or confuse
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stupefy
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