befog
Americanverb
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to surround with fog
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to make confused, vague, or less clear
Etymology
Origin of befog
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After adding befog, we’ve guessed more than three letters for more than 96 percent of all puzzles we might face in Wordle, in four guesses.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2022
No irrational, misguided sentimentality shall befog my firm conviction that Bob Cousy, while still at Holy Cross, retired the title to "The Greatest."
From Time Magazine Archive
She was hurt, but she did not let the hurt befog her sense of justice.
From Parrot & Co. by Harold MacGrath
Notions like that befog one's mind; one rants of universal brotherhood, of liberty and equality and, of course, transcends every convention and every moral law….
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Gerhart Hauptmann
Men who do not wish to do their duty purposely befog great issues by noisy talk and tiresome academic discussions of trivial details; and such men are the curse and scourge of reform movements.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
As always with the royal family, details about its internal deliberations are elusive and befogged in speculation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2021
The Steilhang exuded the full gloom of a north face at befogged dawn.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
But then you arrive and everything is damp, blurred, befogged.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018
Instead of being buried under documents, befogged by facts, you find yourself in the immediate, proximate, breathing presence of another human being — and there’s suddenly no room for anything else.
From Washington Post
When you shout Durham! the gloomy and befogged financial atmosphere becomes clear and there is a mad rush and scramble for her bonds.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
From the frozen Moscow River, from the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of St. Basil, a vapor rose, clouding the skies and befogging the stars.
From Time Magazine Archive
The greatest trouble comes through the befogging emotions.
From Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call
Yet that could not explain the hypnotism the man had for me, befogging, as it sometimes did, an honest estimate.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
Reed cast an agonized look at the cook and remained speechless, but Tucker, with more experience in the befogging properties of language, rushed to his assistance.
From Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance by Alice Duer Miller
A man finally gets justice at the bar of his own conscience, but it is extorted gradually, reluctantly, with much befogging of the case.
From Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe
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