befuddle
verb (used with object)
to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments.
had befuddled
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past perfectof befuddle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In the sixth, Nationals hitters produced three runs and chased Orioles right-handed starter Jason Hammel, who had befuddled Nationals hitters from the start, allowing only two base runners through four innings.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2012
She had befuddled the Athens police so badly that she faced a charge of perjury.
From Time Magazine Archive
Enraged as much by her rival's cool resistance as by her own sense of injury, the Widder Bixby aimed full at the bonnet beneath which were the charms that had befuddled Jerry Todd's brain.
From The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
His infatuation for Charity Coe had befuddled him, wrapped him in a fog through which all other women passed like swaddled figures.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
