bewilder
verb (used with object)
to confuse or puzzle completely; perplex.
have been bewildering
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present perfect progressiveof bewilder.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Her mother chose an agency that suggested Delaware and helped Ms. Tang fill out her application, guiding her through a process that otherwise would have been bewildering.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2011
This picturesque parent showed literally a grander stature and a nobler presence, things which, with some others that might have been bewildering, were handsomely accounted for by the romantic state of her affections.
From What Maisie Knew by Henry James
Yet to any other man the vocation to evangelize it all must have been bewildering and even paralyzing.
From The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker
And its value must have been bewildering for any but the idle rich.
From Visionaries by James Huneker
Thereupon ensued a display of battle tactics that would have been bewildering to an unaccustomed spectator.
From Our Pilots in the Air by William Perry Brown
