befuddle
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 8
/bɪˈfʌdl/
Definition of befuddle
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To perplex, confuse (someone).
“The explanation left him completely befuddled.”
“Slowly the ape-man picked out the meaning of the various combinations of letters on the printed page, and as he read, the little bugs, for as such he always thought of the letters, commenced to run about in a most confusing manner, blurring his vision and befuddling his thoughts.”
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verb
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(transitive)To perplex, confuse (someone).
“The explanation left him completely befuddled.”
“Slowly the ape-man picked out the meaning of the various combinations of letters on the printed page, and as he read, the little bugs, for as such he always thought of the letters, commenced to run about in a most confusing manner, blurring his vision and befuddling his thoughts.”
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(transitive)To stupefy (someone), especially with alcohol.
“[…] to the American and French alcoholics, who drink in order to get drunk and befuddle the brain”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From be- + fuddle.
Words you can make from befuddle
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2 extensions · 2 back
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