Bewilder

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /bɪˈwɪldÉ™(ɹ)/
• US IPA: /bɪˈwɪldəɹ/

Origin

From - + wilder

Full definition of bewilder

Verb

1. (transitive) To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.
   All the different possible options may bewilder us.
• 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
2. (transitive) To disorientate someone.
   Don't push me into that maze and bewilder me.

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