Usually with clause: To ask oneself in wonderment; to feel some doubt or curiosity (how, whether, why, etc.); to be desirous to know or learn.

To discomfit in mind or feelings; to abash, disconcert, put to shame; to distract, perplex, bewilder; = confound, v. 3 4 Till 19th cent. only passive.

intransitive. To wander aimlessly; to be bewildered. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To be perplexed or in doubt; to think anxiously, worry. Obsolete.

intransitive. to annoy of: to be perplexed by (something); to feel worried or uneasy about (something). Obsolete.

transitive. With interrogative clause as object: to be at a loss to discover; to ask oneself meditatively; to wonder.

intransitive. To err, go astray; to be or become bewildered or confused. Obsolete.

Now Scottish and English regional (northern).(a) transitive. To bewilder, to lead astray; (b) intransitive to be bewildered, to go wrong; to rave, go…

intransitive. To be at a loss how to act or decide; to be bewildered or perplexed for a solution; to think hard about something because one cannot…

To make a dunce of; to treat as a dunce; (formerly) spec. to puzzle, mystify, confound. intransitive with upon. Obsolete.

intransitive. To be in doubt whether to do something. Obsolete.

Of the voice, the eye, etc. (or a person with reference to these): To become unsteady; to shake, tremble, falter (through emotion or bodily…

intransitive. To lose one's way, go astray, stray, wander; to be bewildered; to move or extend in a confused way.

transitive. To rub or scrape lightly (a part of the body) with the finger-nails or claws (e.g. to relieve itching). So to scratch one's head, as a…

intransitive. To blunder, bungle; to delay, waste time, procrastinate.

U.S. in passive (a) To be bewildered. (b) To be fascinated with or ‘gone’ on (a person of the opposite sex).

intransitive. Of a person's head: to become deranged or distracted; (in weakened sense) to become bewildered. Cf. sense 1b. rare.

intransitive. colloquial. to fall over oneself: (a) to become confused, make mistakes; (now) esp. to speak in a hurried or stumbling manner; (b)…

To make fuzzy, indistinct, or confused; to blur, confound. Also with up and intransitive, to become blurred or unclear. Chiefly U.S.

A telegraph or telephone wire or cable. Also (with mixture of sense 26), a telegraph route, a telegraphic system connecting two or more stations…