befuddle
verb (used with object)
to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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If the struggles were befuddling, they weren’t yet unnerving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2019