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
The conceptions of Satan and his hosts and surroundings made classical by such as Dante and Milton and Doré have done much to befog the air.
From Quiet Talks on Prayer by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
To color it up and hang it in a gallery of horrors, or to befog it with verbal turnings and twistings, are equally serious mistakes.
From The Third Great Plague A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People by John H. (John Hinchman) Stokes
Ewell's division, which had been left behind to befog Pope's mind and retard his movements, joined us and completed the defensive line of Jackson's entire corps.
From Reminiscences of a Rebel by Wayland Fuller Dunaway
Overruling those just to appease your clearly befogged co-parent is a bad habit to get into right as you’re starting this journey.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022
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
Another area of policy befogged by "an aura of mystical sanctity," said Fulbright, is Red China.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It clears away some of the clouds befogging us.
From Initials Only by Anna Katharine Green
When he had stirred Driscoll out of his dejection enough to make him want to fight, he deigned to clear the atmosphere of that befogging downpour in Texas.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
The greatest trouble comes through the befogging emotions.
From Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call
Perhaps they are approaching this part of the earth like comet that carries its tail before it, and I am already enveloped in a disturbing, befogging nebulosity.
From A Kentucky Cardinal by James Lane Allen
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