bemuse

verb

1. (transitive)To confuse or bewilder.

   “[With] fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies.”

   “the bad metaphysics with which they bemuse themselves”

   “With regard to definition-writing students, as a result of having spent years padding out written assignments in order to meet word-length requirements, were somewhat bemused to be told that fewer words were better than a long, wordy definition.”

2. (proscribed, sometimes, transitive)To be amused, especially sardonically.
3. (archaic, humorous)To devote to the Muses.

   “When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus'd”

4. (obsolete, slang, transitive)To make drunk; to intoxicate.

   “a parson much be-mus'd in beer”

   “This old man generally bemused himself in beer, once a fortnight.”

   “[…] more innocently, and no doubt profitably, than if he had dined at a big-wig's board or bemused himself with smoke and beer among his brethren of the pen.”