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All perplex synonyms

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verb perplex

  • confuse β€” If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
  • bamboozle β€” To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
  • kinked β€” Bent or twisted into a tight curl.
  • fall on β€” to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • got to β€” to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • deviled β€” Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • misarrange β€” to arrange incorrectly or improperly: to misarrange a file.
  • caught short β€” having a sudden need to urinate or defecate
  • lead on β€” to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
  • girdled β€” a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
  • nonplus β€” to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
  • give the business β€” an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • intertangle β€” (transitive) To entangle; to intertwine.
  • becloud β€” to cover or obscure with a cloud
  • dismay β€” to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt: The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
  • flummox β€” to bewilder; confound; confuse.
  • disorienting β€” to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
  • disturb β€” to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
  • discombobulate β€” to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • muddying β€” Cause to become covered in or full of mud.
  • mystify β€” to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
  • discomfit β€” to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
  • derange β€” to disturb the order or arrangement of; throw into disorder; disarrange
  • buffaloing β€” any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
  • winging β€” either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
  • muddle β€” to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
  • complicate β€” To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
  • floor β€” that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
  • make waves β€” a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
  • horrify β€” to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
  • disorientate β€” to disorient.
  • baffle β€” If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
  • mix up β€” an act or instance of mixing.
  • blinded β€” unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
  • noodge β€” to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.
  • displease β€” to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
  • distract β€” to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • deviling β€” Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • girdling β€” a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
  • impose on β€” to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • embroil β€” Involve (someone) deeply in an argument, conflict, or difficult situation.
  • curdled β€” Containing curds.
  • bemuse β€” If something bemuses you, it puzzles or confuses you.
  • flurry β€” a light, brief shower of snow.
  • misidentify β€” to identify incorrectly.
  • forayed β€” a quick, sudden attack: The defenders made a foray outside the walls.
  • buffalo β€” A buffalo is a wild animal like a large cow with horns that curve upwards. Buffalo are usually found in southern and eastern Africa.
  • blinding β€” A blinding light is extremely bright.
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