What is the meaning of mystifying?

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"
  • synonyms: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
• 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