befuddle
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addle, baffle, bamboozle, beat, befog, bemuse, bewilder, buffalo, confound, confuse, discombobulate, disorient, flummox, fox, fuddle, get, gravel, maze, muddle, muddy, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, vex
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The Lions, caught off guard and befuddled, declined comment. — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, "Barry Sanders, London and the most bizarre escape of his career," 21 July 2019 When test results showed that these children, most of whose parents were HIV-negative, had contracted the virus, health workers were befuddled. — Washington Post, "Hundreds of children in Pakistan have been infected with HIV. Used needles could be to blame.," 7 June 2019 Robert Mueller looked old, tired and at times befuddled during his testimony. — Dallas News, "Letters - Misled or forewarned? Readers give their take on the Mueller hearing," 4 Aug. 2019 Video clips of Mueller appearing at times befuddled were circulated far and wide on social media. — Oliver Darcy, CNN, "In the age of the information wars, Mueller's traditionalist approach was his major flaw," 26 July 2019 Few things reveal the limits of someone’s problem-solving skills faster than a Rubik’s Cube, the multicolored, three-dimensional puzzle that has befuddled so many since the 1970s. — Peter Holley, courant.com, "How quickly can AI solve a Rubik’s Cube?," 17 July 2019 So the Dolphins don’t just lose the wise, old man who’s been up the mountain but a guide to the position that’s befuddled this franchise for a couple of decades. — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, "Hyde5: Is Herbert the future? Worst position? Five Dolphins questions as camp looms," 16 July 2019 Among the youthful deputies, common positions are worked out in advance on applications like Telegram, befuddling the old-timers. — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, "Emmanuel Macron Becomes France’s Answer to Strongman Populism," 22 Mar. 2018 Raimondo backed the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan in 1992, 1996 and 2000, over shared views against military action in Bosnia, which befuddled many LGBT activists riled by Buchanan’s antigay rhetoric. — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, "Justin Raimondo, longtime Bay Area antiwar activist and writer, dies," 29 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'befuddle.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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