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bedunce

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid.

archaic, rare, transitive

Examples

“After he has sufficiently bedunced us through several pages, he at last⟳ has the tenderness to answer⟳ to our particular objections, and that with sufficient perplexity.”
“[…] reamsful of financial or statistical calculations; the figures of which, when duly emitted in the House, sufficed to bedunce the brains of five hundred wiser men; […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

bedunced bedunces beduncing bedung bedunged bedunging

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