bewilder
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Synonyms
addle, baffle, bamboozle, beat, befog, befuddle, bemuse, buffalo, confound, confuse, discombobulate, disorient, flummox, fox, fuddle, get, gravel, maze, muddle, muddy, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, vex
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That Brockman has said nothing over this affair is rather bewildering. — Evgeny Morozov, The New Republic, "Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler," 22 Aug. 2019 The behavior of the driver of the car that killed her husband bewilders her. — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, "Hit-and-runs are rising in California. Why Bay Area cops say they often go unsolved," 15 July 2019 The Newtown families were bewildered at first, said Chris Mattei, an attorney for those families. — Susan Svrluga, courant.com, "First, they lost their children. Then the conspiracy theories started. Now, the parents of Newtown are fighting back.," 9 July 2019 The incentive deal, which the Hogsett administration crafted, had left some council members bewildered. — Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star, "Indy spent $30M to keep Corteva’s 1,000-plus jobs, but company cagey about the future," 7 July 2019 Hopper is clearly bewildered by this but obviously agrees to the date. — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, "How Joyce & Bob Affected Joyce & Hopper In Stranger Things Season 3," 5 July 2019 One result of these investigations is that massive lecture-style classes, often needed to make up for subpar high-school educations, tend to bewilder students and set them back. — James P. Sutton, National Review, "Fixing the College-Dropout Problem," 9 Aug. 2019 Sure, the Detroit Tigers have the second-worst record in baseball, have lost seven straight and are a bewildering 2-20 in their past 22 home games. — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, "Matt Manning headlines 3 Detroit Tigers prospects named to Futures Game," 24 June 2019 Like Howland’s family members, Victor tends to distance as much as to draw close, to bewilder as much as to reassure. — Abigail Deutsch, Harper's magazine, "Bette on the Blues," 22 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'bewilder.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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