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BEWILDERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
Example:
she felt lost on the first day of school
Synonyms:
at sea; baffled; befuddled; bemused; bewildered; confounded; confused; lost; mazed; mixed-up
Classified under:
Similar:
perplexed (full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb bewilder
Context examples:
The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She was bewildered amidst the confusion of all that had rushed on her within the last few hours.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
At the sound soldiers came rushing from their tents, knights shouted loudly for their squires, and there was mad turmoil on every hand of bewildered men and plunging horses.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was bewildered, in a cloud of wonder and horror.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Your language is enigmatical, sir: but though I am bewildered, I am certainly not afraid.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I was getting bewildered; he so crowded on my mind his list of nature's eccentricities and possible impossibilities that my imagination was getting fired.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Once Mars moves into your love sector from February 16 until March 30, your popularity in matters of the heart will be so strong that as a modest Virgo, you might be bewildered by all the positive attention you will garner.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
By this time, my dearest sister, you have received my hurried letter; I wish this may be more intelligible, but though not confined for time, my head is so bewildered that I cannot answer for being coherent.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
But the Emperor's friend covered himself with glory, for he danced everything, whether he knew it or not, and introduced impromptu pirouettes when the figures bewildered him.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He was still standing, stupid and bewildered, the memories forgotten, wondering what it was all about, when Kiche attacked him a third time, intent on driving him away altogether from the vicinity.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
