perplex
verb (used with object)
to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally.
will perplex
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future tenseof perplex.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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His book raises questions of conscience which, though they can never be satisfactorily settled, will perplex society and individuals as long as men are bound in loyalty to states that may commit crimes.
From Time Magazine Archive
France and England are both unwilling to bring on war, but a hasty move of the King of Prussia will perplex them.
From The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Thomas Jefferson
This will perplex them, and give us time.
From Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life by Emerson Bennett
And then the inquest will be held—and a medical man will perplex a plain case with useless show of knowledge, and a jury will return a verdict of “Death from natural causes.”
From The Night Side of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
It was a question, the nature of which has perplexed theologians, philosophers, and metaphysicians, in every age, and will perplex them all to the end of time.
From Olive A Novel by G. Bowers
