| 单词 | befuddle |
| 释义 | befuddle (once / 11622 pages) v To befuddle is to confuse. A sticky exam question can befuddle you, or an awkward question about your whereabouts the night before (how can you remember? You were befuddled, after all.) In sixteenth century Britain a popular thing to do (about the only thing to do) after the hogs had been fed and the chickens put away for the night was fuddle — in other words get pretty drunk. Befuddled was simply the confused state too many pots of mead put your poor brain in, and that's still its basic meaning today. Nowadays, befuddle has a more general meaning of confusion and uncertainty not necessarily caused by too much booze. WORD FAMILYbefuddle: befuddled, befuddlement, befuddles, befuddling+/befuddlement: befuddlements USAGE EXAMPLESAre there any heroes anymore, even the tainted, befuddled kind? Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Hoggett uses his befuddling Christmas present, a fax machine, to enter Babe into the national sheepdog trials. The New Yorker(Dec 22, 2016) Vance, “The Hillbilly Elegy”: Liberals befuddled by Trump’s victory turned to Vance’s memoir about his relatives in rural Kentucky and Ohio’s rust belt. Seattle Times(Dec 16, 2016) 1v be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly This question befuddled even the teacher Syn|Hypo|Hyper bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw confuse, disconcert, flurry, put off cause to feel embarrassment demoralize confuse or put into disorder amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vexbe a mystery or bewildering to disorient, disorientatecause to be lost or disoriented mix up, stumpcause to be perplexed or confounded riddleset a difficult problem or riddle elude, escapebe incomprehensible to; escape understanding by be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 2v make stupid with alcohol Syn|Hyper fuddle inebriate, intoxicate, soak make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) |
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