单词 | bemuse |
释义 | bemusev. 1. transitive. To make utterly confused or muddled, as with intoxicating liquor; to put into a stupid stare, to stupefy. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > confuse, bewilder [verb (transitive)] bewhapec1320 mara1350 blunder?a1400 mada1425 to turn a person's brainc1440 astonish1530 maskc1540 dare1547 bemud1599 bedazea1605 dizzy1604 bemist1609 muddify1647 lose1649 bafflea1657 bewildera1680 bother?1718 bemuse1734 muddlea1748 flurrya1757 muzz1786 muzzle1796 flusker1841 haze1858 bemuddle1862 jitter1932 giggle- 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 15 A Parson, much be-mus'd in Beer. 1771 J. Foot Penseroso iv. 196 [With] fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies. 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xx. 393 The bad metaphysics with which they bemuse themselves. 2. humorously, To devote entirely to the Muses. ΚΠ 1705 A. Pope Corr. 23 June (1956) I. 10 When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-Mus'd. Derivatives beˈmused adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > [adjective] bemazed?c1225 madc1300 maskedc1300 marreda1375 astoniedc1386 adasedc1450 astonished1513 moping1566 bewandered1574 dizzy1579 westy1598 night-wildered1652 disconcerted1686 muzzy1723 flustered1743 bewildered1760 flurried1775 muddled1790 thought-bewildered1796 bedazzled1805 muggy1824 mused1842 moony1847 beflustered1864 bemused1880 snarled1881 bedazed1882 bemuddled1883 disoriented1957 disorientated1959 wifty1973 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xxx. 2 A Prussian was regarded in England as a dull beer-bemused creature. beˈmusing adj. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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