verb
- Be a mystery or bewildering to.
- usage: "This beats me"; "Got me-I don't know the answer"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
- Make mysterious.
- usage: "mystify the story"
- synonyms: mystify
adjective
- Of an obscure nature.
- usage: "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
- synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious
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