bemuse
verb (used with object)
to bewilder or confuse.
bemuses
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present tense formof bemuse (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
It bemuses an audience and gravels the players—as the queer uncertainty of touch of so skilful, so conscientious an actor as Mr. Ainley sufficiently betrayed.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman
