verb
- Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.
- usage: "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
- Make stupid with alcohol.
adjective
- Stupefied by alcoholic drink.
- usage: "the wino's poor befuddled mind"; "a mind befogged with drink"
- synonyms: befogged
- Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment.
- usage: "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"
- synonyms: baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea
- Confused and vague; used especially of thinking.
- usage: "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas"
- synonyms: addled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded
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