bemuddle

American  

[bih-muhd-l] / bɪˈmʌd l /

verb (used with object)

bemuddled, bemuddling

1. to muddle or confuse (someone).

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Etymology

Origin of bemuddle

First recorded in 1860–65; be- + muddle

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

bemuddle bemuddled

But some modern sources of information have served at first to bemuddle, and then when more carefully sifted, to clear up the story.

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John

And then, as if to justify his choice, he made of the flaccid Manfred a deeply despairing hero and touched the bemuddled Cervantes knight with the tenderness of a great comedian.

From Time Magazine Archive

The driver of a four-wheeled cab, his purple bemuddled face lighting up with a dull sort of humour, gave him a facetious invitation to get inside the tumble-down old vehicle.

From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by Black, William

I never realized—it never occurred to my bemuddled and torpid brain that I was intruding upon his privacy, that he imagined himself to be alone in the room.

From Tales of Terror and Mystery by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

And here is Hoteï's wife, the goddess-queen Yoka herself—the real masquerader behind that mystic veil which has so enveloped and bemuddled the mind of poor Wilderspin.

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

Quite a combination of circumstances had favoured the escape of the four forzados—the balking of the horses, the absence of Dominguez, and the relaxed vigilance of the guards—from their brains bemuddled with drink.

From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne