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Definition of Befuddles
1. befuddle [v] - See also: befuddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Befuddles
Literary usage of Befuddles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1918)
"A spot of color distracts most of us, as a glass of wine befuddles a teetotaller,
and for the next half hour we are unable to concentrate upon anything. ..."
2. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"The commercial fallacy befuddles society to the point of being °8™V, no longer
able to know its bad from its good. Things plainly i«m anti-social, ..."
3. Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight's Tale, from Chaucer by John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer, May Estelle Cook (1898)
"By attempting it he only befuddles himself, and takes away the pleasure of trained
discrimination which awaits him in his college course if he confines ..."
4. Essays on German Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1892)
"This passion befuddles his reason i and disables him from seeing and thinking
clearly. I The common callow youth, who is but a mediocre ( specimen of his ..."
5. Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell (1906)
"After the melting of the cap is well under way a haziness sets in along its edge
which befuddles its outline and effectually hides what is going on within ..."
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