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UK
/bɪfˈʌdəl/
]
[ US /bɪˈfədəɫ/ ]
[ US /bɪˈfədəɫ/ ]
VERB
-
be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
These questions confuse even the experts
This question befuddled even the teacher
This question completely threw me - make stupid with alcohol
How To Use befuddle In A Sentence
- He was befuddled as he swilled the tea around in his mug
- The kid smiled and vanished, leaving a befuddled scientist to wonder if he'd begun hallucinating.
- This question befuddled even the teacher
- Many people are puzzled by us, and their anxious befuddlement translates into crude stereotyping or, unconsciously perhaps, a refusal to see us at all. Where are all the lesbians?
- At first they glanced at each other, befuddled by the albino girl who stood in nothing but a strapless nightgown.
- He returned it with a high looping sidespin shot, the kind that could utterly befuddle a neophyte but would be a lost point against an experienced player. Robot Adept
- Emerging after a bibulous evening, befuddled guests went to recover their coats, only to discover that some of them had ‘walked’.
- Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney.
- When Miss Fiske wrote to inform me of her condition, I was utterly befuddled.
- I forgot to tell you all this is set in one of my confused and befuddled future settings.