Meaning of bedunce | Babel Free

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