Fluster
['flʌstə] or ['flʌstɚ]
Definition
(verb.) cause to be nervous or upset.
(verb.) be flustered; behave in a confused manner.
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Definition
(v. t.) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.
(v. i.) To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
(n.) Heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Excite, heat, hurry, agitate, confound, confuse, disconcert, disturb, flurry, pose, nonplus.
n. Agitation, FLURRY.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FLURRY]
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Definition
n. hurrying: confusion: heat.—v.t. to make hot and confused: to fuddle.—v.i. to bustle: to be agitated or fuddled.—v.t. Flus′terāte to fluster.—n. Flusterā′tion.—adj. Flus′tered fuddled: flurried.—n. Flus′terment.—adj. Flus′tery confused.
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Examples
- None of this examination had flustered him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Nevertheless, I am in a dream, a flustered, happy, hurried dream. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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