puzzled

adj

1. Confused or perplexed.

   “They diſentangle from the puzzled ſkein / In vvhich obſcurity has vvrapp'd them up, / The threads of politic and ſhrevvd deſign / That ran through all his purpoſes, […]”

   “[W]hen the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.”

   “Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.”

   “They could not, it was said, keep Scandinavian bogies and the Scriptures separate in their puzzled brains.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of puzzle