Bewilder
[bɪ'wɪldə] or [bɪ'wɪldɚ]
Definition
(v. t.) To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Perplex, confound, confuse, embarrass, puzzle, stagger, pose, nonplus, mystify, entangle.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Daze, dazzle, confound, mystify, puzzle, embarrass, astonish, perplex, confuse,mislead
ANT:Guide, inform, lead, instruct, enlighten, edify
Checker: Monroe
Definition
v.t. to perplex or lead astray.—p.adj. Bewil′dered lost confused in mind trackless.—adj. Bewil′dering.—adv. Bewil′deringly.—n. Bewil′derment confusion mental confusion: perplexity.
Typist: Wanda
Examples
- Are you not enough to bewilder one's brain with your self-contradiction? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If there was one thing wanting to bewilder me it was this incomprehensible thing! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It is evident I bewilder your brain. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You don't know how you haunt me and bewilder me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He looked bewildered. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She looked at me bewildered. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Amy, tell Hannah to get down the black trunk, and Meg, come and help me find my things, for I'm half bewildered. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Poor bewildered statesmen, unused to any notion of change, have seen the national life grow to a monstrous confusion and sprout monstrous evils by the way. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Dallas paused before him, visibly bewildered. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The guide was bewildered --non-plussed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He is incapable of arguing, and is bewildered by Socrates to such a degree that he does not know what he is saying. Plato. The Republic.
- This fashion of camping out bewilders me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These infinitely small beings multiply with a rapidity and fecundity that bewilders the imagination. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Human nature could not withstand these bewildering temptations. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was a profound observation when Bernard Shaw said that men dread liberty because of the bewildering responsibility it imposes and the uncommon alertness it demands. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- From them we can gather some hint of the enormous bewildering demand that prostitution answers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She was too bewildering. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The balance of the frightful herd was now circling rapidly and with bewildering speed about the little knot of victims. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But experience has shown that a seven-foot ballot with a regiment of names is so bewildering that a real choice is impossible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The wind blew fiercely now, and the thickening white storm waxed bewildering; but on she came, and not dismayed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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