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Bemuse   /bɪmjˈuz/   Listen
Bemuse

verb
1.
Cause to be confused emotionally.  Synonyms: bewilder, discombobulate, throw.



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"Bemuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... Phales, oh, Phales, is it to surprise Thratta, the pretty wood-maid, Strymodorus' slave, stealing wood from Mount Phelleus, to catch her under the arms, to throw her on the ground and possess her! Oh, Phales, Phales! If thou wilt drink and bemuse thyself with me, we will to-morrow consume some good dish in honour of the peace, and I will hang up my ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al

... justice, they unconsciously admit all this themselves; for, as soon as they set themselves to discuss the motives of the able man in detail, they altogether abandon the irrelevancies of speculative sociology with which they manage at other times to bemuse themselves. That such is the case we shall see in the following chapter. I will, however, anticipate what we shall see there by mentioning that among the motives which are in the socialistic future to replace, among able men, the desire of economic gain, one of the ...
— A Critical Examination of Socialism • William Hurrell Mallock



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