English

Verb

befuddle ‎(third-person singular simple present befuddles, present participle befuddling, simple past and past participle befuddled)

1. (transitive) to perplex, confuse (someone)

   The explanation left him completely befuddled.‎

2. (transitive) to stupefy someone, especially with alcohol
   • 1983, Basile Kerblay, Modern Soviet Society, page 290

     ... to the American and French alcoholics, who drink in order to get drunk and befuddle the brain

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• See also Wikisaurus:confuse

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