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Befuddled   /bɪfˈədəld/   Listen
Befuddled

adjective
1.
Stupefied by alcoholic drink.  Synonym: befogged.  "A mind befogged with drink"
2.
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment.  Synonyms: at sea, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up.  "Bewildered and confused" , "A cloudy and confounded philosopher" , "Just a mixed-up kid" , "She felt lost on the first day of school"
3.
Confused and vague; used especially of thinking.  Synonyms: addled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, woolly-headed, wooly, wooly-minded.  "Your addled little brain" , "Woolly thinking" , "Woolly-headed ideas"


Befuddle

verb
(past & past part. befuddled)
1.
Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.  Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw.  "This question completely threw me" , "This question befuddled even the teacher"
2.
Make stupid with alcohol.  Synonym: fuddle.



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"Befuddled" Quotes from Famous Books



... Still befuddled by the unusual events of the day, Howard Van Cleft was unable to delight in a theoretical discovery. Personal fear ...
— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball
... was waiting to claim the little figure on the floor, that he might take her back to her mother. In that way he would retrieve his own past errors and in a measure redeem the misspent life of the thief. He saw Cronk smooth his brow with a shaking hand, as if to wipe away from his befuddled brain the cobwebs of indecision and time-gathered shadows. His lips, drawn awry with intensity, opened only ...
— From the Valley of the Missing • Grace Miller White
... of laws that befuddled White Fang and often brought him into disgrace. He had to learn that he must not touch the chickens that belonged to other gods. Then there were cats, and rabbits, and turkeys; all these he must let alone. In fact, when he had but partly learned the law, his impression was that he must leave ...
— White Fang • Jack London
... Dazzled, and befuddled by his own rash speed, Ned Vince had only swift young reflexes to rely on to avoid a fearful, telescoping collision. He flicked his wheel smoothly to the right; but the County Highway Commission hadn't yet tarred the traffic-loosened gravel at ...
— The Eternal Wall • Raymond Zinke Gallun
... he cried. "If he had not so befuddled his head with ale he would remember as well as I do that twenty inches would reach the ...
— Heiress of Haddon • William E. Doubleday


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