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(v)
(transitive) To thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.
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(transitive) To confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices.
(n)
(obsolete) A difficulty.
(obsolete) A state of bewilderment or perplexity.
(transitive) To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
(transitive) To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.
(archaic) (except poetic, uncountable) Amazement, astonishment; (countable) an instance of this.
Alternative form of stupefy. [(transitive, especially law) To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to stun.]
(transitive, by extension, figurative) To astonish or stun, especially as a result of some distressing action.
(dated) Offspring, especially illegitimate.
An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
A stroke; a blow.
(uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.
A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
A river in Minnesota, a tributary of the Saint Louis River.
Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
(countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).
A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
(medicine) A pain or ache in the head.
A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.
(physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
A covering of tiles.
A jigsaw puzzle.
A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
A state of not knowing what to decide; a state of difficulty or perplexity; a state of uncertainty, hesitation or puzzlement.
(informal) A problem or puzzle devised to exercise the brain and mind.
The state of being bewildered.
The state or quality of being perplexed.
(figuratively, informal) Something particularly puzzling or confusing.
(informal) A difficult puzzle or problem.
(marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.
(derogatory, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
(games) A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded.
An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
(uncountable) The result or state of being baffled, confused, or puzzled.
A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.
A confrontation; a dare.
The confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment.
Something that contains puzzles;
The domain of puzzles; puzzles collectively.
(transitive, slang, childish) To confuse or puzzle.
A kind of puzzle made of interlocking pieces that must be disassembled and reassembled.
Perplexity.
A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
(idiomatic) Something very mysterious and hidden.
The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.
(obsolete) Something intricately contrived; a puzzle.
Synonym of puzzle canon.
A puzzle making up part of a larger puzzle.
(figuratively) A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
A difficult or confusing situation with many complex components.
The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
A tangled twisted mass.
(countable, uncountable) A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
A mixture of often unrelated things.
(literally) A dense thicket of thorny plants; ground made impassable by the impenetrable overgrowth of prickly vegetation.
The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
An adhesive label or decal.
A confused mixture.
An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
A machine that is complicated and precarious.
A tangled structure.
A quilt made from random patches, without any unifying design.
(anatomy) A large muscle of the back, passing from the spine to the head.
(uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
Someone or something that pieces.
The act by which something is jumbled or confused.
(figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
Obsolete form of trangram. [(obsolete) Something intricately contrived; a puzzle.]
A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
A tangled, knotted, or intertwined mass.
That which entangles or causes entanglement
The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
(informal, transitive) To confuse thoroughly.
A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
(informal) An emotional difficulty or a psychological inhibition.
gerund of ravel
A network of interconnected systems.
A puzzle video game in which falling tetrominoes must be manipulated to form complete lines, which are then cleared from the grid.
(chiefly in the plural) A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread.