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Webster 1828 Edition
Puzzled
PUZ'ZLED
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Definition 2024
puzzled
puzzled
English
Adjective
puzzled (comparative more puzzled, superlative most puzzled)
- Confused or perplexed.
- 1848, w:William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Bradbury and Sons, 11:
- (...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
- 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
- Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.
- 1848, w:William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Bradbury and Sons, 11:
Derived terms
Translations
confused or perplexed
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Verb
puzzled
- simple past tense and past participle of puzzle