(v. t.) To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was standing in the street looking windswept and bewildered.
(2) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
(3) Its president, the former Canadian Liberal party leader and former Observer columnist Michael Ignatieff, is bewildered.
(4) Their response has always completely bewildered me.
(5) The chancellor also said that the sometimes bewildering array of initiatives already in existence for small firms would be streamlined under the banner of UK Finance for Growth, which will oversee the existing £4bn of schemes.
(6) Ross loved a girl of 17, so he married her when he was 28; a field-day for predictors of doom who must now be bewildered that two decades and three children proved them wrong.
(7) The presence of a de novo phosphatidylethanolamine Kennedy pathway in P. falciparum contributes to the bewildering variety of phospholipid biosynthetic pathways in this parasitic organism.
(8) 2 Attract the Comedian’s attention by having bewildering hair, wearing a necklace of multi-coloured fairy lights and launching two flares up into the lighting rig.
(9) Amid the incoherent responses that make up a bewildering official narrative, the idea that the militants are funded by the government is gaining currency.
(10) If you talk to anybody who is not in the Labour party, they’re actually bewildered that he’s still in place,” Low added.
(11) Invited by Marcus Rashford to make a dart into the area Martial breezed past a bewildered Besic to cut the ball back from the byline and present Marouane Fellaini with a goal against his former club.
(12) This is not surprising because although textbooks recommend a bewildering variety of test doses, they seldom give precise details as to how they should be conducted.
(13) Ross Sutherland's Standby For Tape Back-Up, which still bewilders me.
(14) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
(15) But more rounded beer fans will find plenty to enjoy in its vast array of bottles (a bit bewildering, as there was no menu on a recent visit) and 13 keg lines.
(16) Instead – plainly bewildering to some commentators – here is unaccustomed unity of purpose.
(17) When General Electric jobs left Schenectady so did a way of life Read more Patrignani proudly chats me through the bewildering array of silicone-based products Momentive makes and that end up in everything from lipstick, car parts and the adhesives that are used in stamps and bandages to airplane seats and the glue that held the tiles on the space shuttle.
(18) He is bewildered by the "contradiction" within sections of the disability lobby, some of whom fear that the law will be used to discriminate against disabled people's quality of life and persuade them to end their lives instead.
(19) Burke told Guardian Australia: "I find some of the political points quite bewildering.
(20) So much so that the 28-year-old at the centre of it all is quite bewildered.
Dumbfound
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) My mother stood there with her arms around us two kids and she cried, and I just stood there dumbfounded.
(2) But one of the girls responded, “The statue is the weight of the people’s allegiance for the Dear Leader.” The journalists were dumbfounded.
(3) Not pounds and pence, plans and policies, but people.” In a moment of arch-mischief, he thanked his dumbfounded tribe for their part in backing causes many of them still abhor: “It wasn’t just me who put social justice, equality for gay people, tackling climate change, and helping the world’s poorest at the centre of the Conservative party’s mission – we all did.” You could see them looking at one another, as if to say: did we?
(4) While other politicians decline to comment, the French culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, says he is "dumbfounded" by Polanski's "absolutely dreadful" detention, declaring forcibly that it made "no sense" for the director to be "thrown to the lions for an ancient story, imprisoned while travelling to an event that was intending to honour him: caught, in short, in a trap".
(5) And many people were dumbfounded that Theresa May opted to keep Jeremy Hunt as health secretary .
(6) The fearful symmetry of his technique is dumbfounding.
(7) EU officials and diplomats reacted with outrage and the Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, appeared dumbfounded by the demand.
(8) He said he couldn't believe it and neither could I. I was dumbfounded, I couldn't understand it at all because only months before he'd said he was at the biggest club in the world and he wanted to stay for life.
(9) The authors report 40 hydatid cysts of rare localization selected during a period of 11 years and represent 10.75% on the whole of the hydatid cysts operated during the same period all localizations dumbfounded.
(10) I was dumbfounded and devastated, having had no idea they existed, and I have spent literally hundreds of hours scouring them, trying to find my father and brother.
(11) Vaxevanis told the Guardian he was "dumbfounded" at the news, and attributed the move to concerted efforts on the part of the judiciary to silence the press.
(12) The fate of Mujuru, who most expected to take over from President Mugabe, has clearly dumbfounded many political pundits.
(13) Which is why I was dumbfounded when he suddenly turned up at the hospital one evening in an ambulance, to ask me one final question.
(14) As Mike Myers stood dumbfounded beside him, the rapper extemporised on race, money and aid efforts , finishing with the now notorious accusation: "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
(15) Peverel, the controversial company that is the biggest manager of retirement homes in the UK, last week admitted to systematic price-fixing by a subsidiary, but campaigners were left dumbfounded after the company entirely escaped penalties and fines.
(16) And it broke my heart when I read that, after his arrest he said , “It made me feel like I wasn’t human” and “it made me feel like a criminal.” But as much as I am outraged at the treatment this young boy endured, I’m dumbfounded at the ignorance of the adults in his school including the police who literally cannot tell the difference between a clock, a bomb and a “fake bomb”, let alone the kind of kid who might bring any of the above.
(17) The idea was that Karadžić’s bodyguards, known as the Preventiva, would be dumbfounded and slow down their vehicle long enough for the Delta Force ambushers to fire a specially designed concussion grenade at the car doors to stun the passengers.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson: UK can have greater role in Europe post-Brexit Senior mandarins remain dumbfounded by his appointment, pointing to his long record of undiplomatic remarks about vital UK allies ranging from Turkey to the US and Europe.
(19) Polanski was born in Paris to Polish parents and has French citizenship; France's culture minister Frédéric Mitterand said he was "dumbfounded" at the arrest, adding that he "strongly regrets that a new ordeal is being inflicted on someone who has already experienced so many of them".
(20) I was in the pub on Saturday talking to some non-gamer friends about the controversy, I explained the Xbox One restrictions to them and they were completely dumbfounded about why anyone would buy it.