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befogged

befogged

English

Verb

befogged

  1. simple past tense and past participle of befog

Adjective

befogged (comparative more befogged, superlative most befogged)

  1. obscured with fog, murky
    • 1914, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Mucker, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
      … so that quite a perceptible interval of time elapsed before the true dimensions of the affront to his dignity commenced to percolate into the befogged and pain-racked convolutions of his brain.
  2. Confused
    • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXIX,
      If I could only get back to the inscription or the grotto I felt the rest would be easy to accomplish, but the more I rambled the more utterly befogged I got.

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