What's the difference between befuddle and mystify?

Befuddle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most are befuddled tourists who have no idea what is going on!
  • (2) 1) Brilliance of Barcelona shows up the Premier League When performing as they did in the first half Barcelona are dazzling – their control, passing and movement befuddled Manchester City .
  • (3) Donald Trump is technology's befuddled (but dangerous) grandfather Read more “So it could be somebody else.
  • (4) "I like your watch," he says while I gibber into his big, beautiful, travel-befuddled face.
  • (5) Lastly, after an affectedly befuddled defense of NSA metadata mining as “hugely important” and victim of a “debate [that] has gotten off track”, Jeb boldly reiterated the Reagan line of “peace through strength”.
  • (6) The pilots of his plane were befuddled by thick fog as they attempted to land, and crashed into a forest adjoining Smolensk’s airfield.
  • (7) The housing benefit system is so complicated, and people get so befuddled by what’s happening to them, and then they end up in court,” Smith says.
  • (8) He didn't really do anything but his presence befuddled Sakho, who just stood there and allowed the ball to bounce off his thigh and back to Oscar.
  • (9) The following Sunday, I was still befuddled with the Saturday drink – and in danger of dodging mass again.
  • (10) Who knew that the Rolling Stones, perhaps still befuddled by the recent events at Altamont, booked him to play at their 1969 Christmas party?
  • (11) Privately, [pollsters] are terrified and befuddled,” said one senior industry figure.
  • (12) As people will, they were quick to point to the weakness in the Genius system: if you start with a Beatles track, then the Genius is befuddled.
  • (13) Labour politicians talked about being “stunned” and “befuddled”, and of “a cold bitter morning”.
  • (14) But if Snoke was to announce himself – Benedict Cumberbatch style – as Darth Plagueis in Episode VIII, the supposed big reveal would be met with choruses of befuddlement in cinemas across the globe.
  • (15) June 6, 2014 3.54am BST Heat 67-69 Spurs, 3:53 remaining, third quarter Hahaha, alright Ginobili just took advantage of a massive Heat defensive lapse, hitting a layout in front of some befuddled Heat defenders.
  • (16) Like all self-respecting pagan gods, Gaiman's deities enjoy the human befuddlement that they cause.
  • (17) 11.02pm BST Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) What's befuddling is that there wasn't a single event or moment that flipped the momentum of gun policy reform.
  • (18) The Kings won again, this time 3-0 in regulation to take a similarly daunting 3-0 lead in the series, but it was the way in which they did it that could leave one still befuddled.
  • (19) With all due respect to the Baltimore Ravens , this Super Bowl's legacy will be the moment when the year's most expensive television program was caught looking as unprepared and befuddled as the most low budgeted local broadcast.
  • (20) The worst someone can say is that I am some befuddled old guy who doesn’t have a clue.” The Guardian view on giving ministers a free vote on Europe | Editorial Read more Rose headed Marks & Spencer, the biggest clothing retailer on the high street, between 2004 and 2010.

Mystify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.
  • (v. t.) To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The form of address for British surgeons--"Mister" instead of "Doctor"--has mystified other members of the medical profession for years.
  • (2) His spokesman said that the producer was "mystified" by the police's investigation.
  • (3) Medicine is being de-mystified and individuals and communities are encouraged to take over responsibility for their own health.
  • (4) All of these insults to the Apple brand might have been borne, maybe, until the biggest insult of all came: a steady and otherwise mystifying drop in Apple's stock price.
  • (5) Complicated and mystifying as the snake envenomation process may appear, the toxic principles of snake venoms are biochemical entities that could be isolated, purified and characterized.
  • (6) This week we went in search of some of the most extreme prices – ultra-high and ultra-low – which highlight the mystifying nature of rail pricing in Britain.
  • (7) Everybody I spoke to said this, in a sort of mystified way: wasn't it different when we were kids?
  • (8) "I would argue to make the case that somehow we are in the dark is mystifying to me," Rogers says.
  • (9) His memoir The Discomfort Zone describes his older brother Tom leaving home after a row with his father: mystified and ashamed, the Franzen family "quarantined itself and suffered by itself", much as the Berglunds do after Joey moves out.
  • (10) Those who don't suffer from them find them mystifying; childish, even.
  • (11) It would be fair to say that the Spanish are shocked and mystified by the Brexit decision – and offended.
  • (12) Every pub draws the audience it deserves, and Bar Fringe's crowd is an unlikely mix of hairy bikers, bohemian folk, gnarled beer-tickers and brainy students, who leave mystifying, maths-related graffiti in the toilets.
  • (13) The government’s attitude to the BBC rather mystifies me,” Bryant told MPs.
  • (14) Stoke went into the contest on a three-match winning run in the Premier League and their manager, Mark Hughes, admitted he had been left mystified by the performance his players produced on his 100th game in charge at the club.
  • (15) Very rarely in my experience do the banks capitulate and reverse their decisions, however mystifying.
  • (16) Now there's a sense of shock, everyone's mystified and almost in a state of dread."
  • (17) Wenger admitted afterwards that he was mystified why they had left only one defender at the back and it was the same again shortly afterwards when Ángel Di Maria burst free only to try something similar and chip wide.
  • (18) You must hope we parents are so mystified by this that we’ll think it represents “rigour”.
  • (19) Paul Pogba fails to justify £100m price tag but does enough against Germany | Barney Ronay Read more Joachim Löw’s post-match demeanour betrayed a man mystified by elimination, particularly given the dominance his team had enjoyed throughout virtually the entirety of the first half.
  • (20) "What mystifies me is that Murdoch's attack on the Times can in the short term only hurt both papers by costing them both a great deal.