bemuse
verb (used with object)
to bewilder or confuse.
bemuses
-
present tense formof bemuse (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It’s like a magical realist novel in which the Carry On star bemuses the architect of the Russian revolution with a camp remark.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2015
Although exactly what male activists are fighting for, when men still dominate so many important areas of society, bemuses many others.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2014
Of many examples in my life, it bemuses me to remember that I used to be a devotee of Philip Glass.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2012
Endocrine-disruption research certainly addresses mechanisms but has an applied aspect, as a chimeric field that interweaves many disciplines and perhaps bemuses the unimaginative.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2011
He looks at an open window and the dark gap behind it of some room or other over there, a shadowy room that bemuses him.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
