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 John Fiske

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

I verily believe my brains have got bemuddled, like everything else.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by F.C. Tilney

It was they who raised the issues which divided the people into contesting camps and which often beclouded and bemuddled the popular mind.

From Great Fortunes from Railroads by Gustavus Myers

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 William Black

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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle