befuddle
[bih-fuhd-l]
verb (used with object), be·fud·dled, be·fud·dling.
to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
to make stupidly drunk.
Origin of befuddle
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puzzlement, stupor, confusion, discombobulation, bewilderment, fog, stupefaction, perplexity, bafflement, obfuscationExamples from the Web for befuddlement
Contemporary Examples of befuddlement
One former Media Research Center employee reacted to the news with a deep sense of befuddlement, “I thought everyone knew it.”
Ex-Employees of Conservative Figure L. Brent Bozell Say He Didn’t Write His Books or ColumnsBen Jacobs
February 13, 2014
Still, I have heard more than a few people, of all races, shrug in some kind of befuddlement about what they are expected to feel.
This state of affairs is a source of befuddlement to Walmart executives.
Historical Examples of befuddlement
But their befuddlement was only a tithe of that which struck Cleigh an hour later.
The Pagan MadonnaHarold MacGrath
The befuddlement of Antoine and the waiter who assisted him added to the general joy.
Lady LarkspurMeredith Nicholson
She had only added to his befuddlement and he bent forward, soliciting some more lucid statement of her position.
A Hoosier ChronicleMeredith Nicholson
befuddle
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