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bamboozles

  • present tense form
    of bamboozle (3rd person singular).
    bamboozle
    verb (used with object)
    to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed byinto ).

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Yet it’s a good time to revive a play about a ruthless leader who bamboozles the public while wreaking havoc on his government.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

In the process, I think that's what it is, the process bamboozles you.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2023

The sorcerer Prospero bamboozles his shipwrecked enemies with astonishing illusions.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2022

Adil Rashid bamboozles Babar Azam with a googly as the Pakistan captain is stumped by Jos Buttler in the T20 series decider at Old Trafford.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2021

Just as Dogget was supreme in such parts as Fondlewife, so was Fisher superb in the uxorious husband whom the demure child-wife bamboozles, in the comedies of Molière.

From Shadows of the Stage by William Winter