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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

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 Hughes, Rupert

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 Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith