mystify
verb (used with object)
to perplex, puzzle, or baffle; defy the understanding of.
mystified
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past participleof mystify.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof mystify.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
mystifyverb (used with object)to perplex, puzzle, or baffle; defy the understanding of.
Example Sentences
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As a girl, I remember being mystified by entire aisles at the drugstore: Who needs this stuff?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Older audiences, however, are mystified by what some see as a dumbing down of popular culture.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
For his part, Cage mystified people on set with the spider-like moves he did to convey what was happening to his character’s body.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
"But I am still mystified what happened to him after the war."
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Champollion walked the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak and casually read the inscriptions, which had mystified everyone else, answering the question he had posed as a child to Fourier.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
