All buffaloing synonyms

verb buffaloing

• bewilder — If something bewilders you, it is so confusing or difficult that you cannot understand it.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• mislead — to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
• deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
• astonish — If something or someone astonishes you, they surprise you very much.
• fluster — to put into a state of agitated confusion: His constant criticism flustered me.
• complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
• surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
• flummox — to bewilder; confound; confuse.
• bemuse — If something bemuses you, it puzzles or confuses you.
• distract — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
• flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• unsettle — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
• undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
• agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
• sap — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
• demoralize — If something demoralizes someone, it makes them lose so much confidence in what they are doing that they want to give up.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• mystify — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
• stump — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
• dumbfound — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
• bewilder — If something bewilders you, it is so confusing or difficult that you cannot understand it.
• faze — to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.
• befuddle — If something befuddles you, it confuses your mind or thoughts.
• puzzle — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• astound — If something astounds you, you are very surprised by it.
• confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
• amaze — If something amazes you, it surprises you very much.
• daze — If someone is in a daze, they are feeling confused and unable to think clearly, often because they have had a shock or surprise.
• stun — to deprive of consciousness or strength by or as if by a blow, fall, etc.: The blow to his jaw stunned him for a moment.
• nonplus — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
• disconcert — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
• terrorize — to fill or overcome with terror.
• torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
• hector — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
• bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
• coerce — If you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• persecute — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
• threaten — to utter a threat against; menace: He threatened the boy with a beating.
• oppress — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
• browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
• dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
• subdue — to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.