befuddle
verb
be·fud·dle
bi-ˈfə-dᵊl 
bē-
befuddled; befuddling; befuddles
1
: to muddle or stupefy with or as if with drink
… befuddled with drink all the time.—
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most of the applicants were befuddled by the wording of one of the questions on the driving test
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
The crowd looked befuddled, but Dugin cottoned at once.
—James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
For many people, filing taxes to the Internal Revenue Service is a befuddling process.
—Malaka Gharib, NPR, 26 Feb. 2025
People were befuddled by Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making passion project, a rococo take on the collapse of an empire.
—Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2025
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“Befuddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/befuddle. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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befuddle
verb
be·fud·dle
bi-ˈfəd-ᵊl
befuddled; befuddling
-ˈfəd-liŋ,
-ᵊl-iŋ
1
: to dull the senses of with or as if with too much drink : stupefy
2
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