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单词 befuddle
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befuddle

(bɪfʌdəl)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense befuddles, present participle befuddling, past tense, past participle befuddled
verb
If something befuddles you, it confuses your mind or thoughts.
...problems that are befuddling them. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: confuse, puzzle, baffle, bewilder More Synonyms of befuddle
befuddled adjective
...his befuddled manner.
...befuddled with drink.
Synonyms: confused, upset, puzzled, baffled More Synonyms of befuddle

befuddle in British English

(bɪˈfʌdəl)
verb (transitive)
1. 
to confuse, muddle, or perplex
2. 
to make stupid with drink
Derived forms
befuddlement (beˈfuddlement)
noun

befuddle in American English

(biˈfʌdəl; bɪˈfʌdəl)
verb transitiveWord forms: beˈfuddled or beˈfuddling
1. 
to fuddle or confuse (the mind, a person, etc.)
2. 
to stupefy with alcoholic liquor
Derived forms
befuddlement (beˈfuddlement)
noun

Examples of 'befuddle' in a sentence
befuddle

Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once.
Alex Shakar THE SAVAGE GIRL (2001)
(verb) 
He liked to befuddle his readers.
Synonyms
confuse
Politics just confuses me.
puzzle
What puzzles me is why nobody has complained before now.
baffle
An apple tree producing square fruit is baffling experts.
bewilder
The silence from her sister had hurt and bewildered her.
muddle
Don't talk all at once, you're muddling me.
daze
We were dazed by the sheer size of the spectacle.
perplex
problems that perplexed me
mystify
There was something strange in her attitude that mystified me.
disorient
faze
stupefy
flummox
This system has the potential to flummox most car thieves.
bemuse
It doesn't bemuse readers with pompous language.
intoxicate
He drank enough lager to intoxicate an army base.
Opposites
resolve
,
interpret
,
make clear
,
clarify
,
illuminate
,
clear up
,
simplify
,
make plain
,
elucidate
,
explicate
,
throw or shed light on
Seepuzzle

Nearby words of
befuddle

  • before
  • beforehand
  • befriend
  • befuddle
  • befuddled
  • beg
  • beget

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