Befuddlement

Definitions

The state of being befuddled.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“1907, Algernon Blackwood, “Max Hensig—Bacteriologist and Murderer” Chapter 4, in The Listener and Other Stories, New York: Knopf, 1917, p. 105, It was, of course, an effect of hypnotism, he remembered thinking, vaguely through the befuddlement of his drink⟳—this culminating effect of an evil and remorseless personality acting upon one that was diseased and extra receptive.”

“A change⟳ came over his wind-beaten face⟳, a slight befuddlement, the shock⟳ of some minor fact jarred loose.”

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