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单词 bewilder
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bewilder
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To bewilder is to amaze, baffle, dumbfound, flummox, perplex, or stupefy. When you bewilder people, you confuse them.
Bewilder is a fun-sounding word for confusion-causing. A complicated math problem will bewilder many students. A magician's tricks should bewilder the audience. Mystery stories should be a little bewildering, at least until the end. Sometimes, being bewildered has a more emotional element. If someone you know died in a freak accident, that would bewilder you in a very sad way.
WORD FAMILY
bewilder: bewildered, bewildering, bewilderment, bewilders+/bewildered: bewilderedly/bewildering: bewilderingly/bewilderment: bewilderments
USAGE EXAMPLES
While his stance is one of self-deprecating bewilderment, he is also often genuinely bewildered.
The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017)
Onuaku debuted the form in Greece, while playing in an international under-19 tournament for Team USA, to snickering, bewildered teammates.
Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016)
Fiji’s rugby sevens team bewildered everyone and won their country’s very first gold medal.
The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016)
1v cause to be confused emotionally
Syn|Hyper
bemuse, discombobulate, throw
discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset
cause to lose one's composure
2v be a mystery or bewildering to
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex
mix up, stump
cause to be perplexed or confounded
riddle
set a difficult problem or riddle
elude, escape
be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
defy, refuse, resist
elude, especially in a baffling way
bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw
be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
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