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mystifies in British English

3rd person singular present tense of verb
mystify
 

mystify in British English

(ˈmɪstɪˌfaɪ)
verbWord forms: -fies, -fying or -fied (transitive)
1. 
to confuse, bewilder, or puzzle
2. 
to make mysterious or obscure
Derived forms
mystification (ˌmystifiˈcation)
noun
mystifier (ˈmystiˌfier)
noun
mystifying (ˈmystiˌfying)
adjective
mystifyingly (ˈmystiˌfyingly)
adverb
Word origin
C19: from French mystifier, from mystère mystery1 or mystique mystic

Examples of 'mystifies' in a sentence
mystifies

This, she says, mystifies almost all her friends.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Meanwhile, the apparently sleepy adult world mystifies.
Globe and Mail (2003)
It is the desert that entrances, mystifies, confuses, thrills.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It mystifies me that so many people oppose it.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
A customs union mystifies almost everybody.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
There's an instinctive edge to your thoughts that mystifies others but is clear to you.
The Sun (2018)
Now recycling has grown into a publicly funded ball of confusion that mystifies everyone, precisely because it is organised locally.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There is nothing that so much mystifies the young as the constant frivolity of theold.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This too is a fascinating feature of a work the genesis of which still mystifies most scholars.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
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