BEFUDDLED Definition & Meaning

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befuddled

[bih-fuhd-ld]

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adjective

confused or muddled.
They claim this is the prevailing economic theory, taught in the best schools, and that I am a hopelessly befuddled fool for questioning it.
puzzled or perplexed.
People often ask us—usually with a befuddled look on their face—"Why on earth are you doing this?"
stupidly drunk.
I don't think he's sobered up at all—in fact, he looks almost frighteningly befuddled and out of it.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of befuddle.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of befuddled¹

First recorded in 1830–40; befuddle + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; befuddle + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

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But the next year, Hitler himself declared that all forms of modern art were degenerate and had no place in his Germany, which would not “be befuddled or intimidated” by modernist “charlatans.”

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The increasing use - and success - of the drop-shot allowed Bublik to forge a double-break lead in the third set, with Draper looking increasingly befuddled as he tried to find a solution.

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So it was for actor Rolf Saxon, who appeared as a befuddled CIA analyst in the very first “Mission: Impossible” film.

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Today, we are the land of the entitled led by the demonically befuddled.

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Lost in the haze of Trump’s befuddled narcissism and fascism is the often ignored reality: this is not normal.

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