(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.
Own
Definition:
(v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.
(a.) Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; -- most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price.
(a.) To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.