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perplex: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"

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faze collapse: disturb the composure of

snake pit collapse

flabbergast collapse: overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!"

labyrinth collapse

discommode collapse

astound collapse

snarl up collapse

disorient collapse: cause to be lost or disoriented

wheels within wheels collapse

Gordian knot collapse: an intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia; any very difficult problem; insoluble in its own terms

befuddle collapse: make stupid with alcohol

ensnarl collapse

amaze collapse: affect with wonder; "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!"

dumbfound collapse

astonish collapse

stonewall collapse: engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate; "The President stonewalled when he realized the plot was being uncovered by a journalist"; obstruct or hinder any discussion; "Nixon stonewalled the Watergate investigation"; "When she doesn't like to face a problem, she simply stonewalls"

bamboozle collapse: conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"

discombobulate collapse

befog collapse

louse up collapse

petrify collapse: cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"

addle collapse: become rotten; "addled eggs"; mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues"

discountenance collapse: show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced"; look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"

stupefy collapse

mystify collapse: make mysterious; "mystify the story"

implicate collapse: bring into intimate and incriminating connection; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government"

stand in the way collapse

unsettle collapse

elude collapse: escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"; be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"

buffalo collapse: meat from an American bison; a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls); intimidate or overawe

bowl over collapse

dismay collapse: fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"

bewilder collapse: cause to be confused emotionally

disrupt collapse: throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process"

ball up collapse

distract collapse: draw someone's attention away from something; "The thief distracted the bystanders"; "He deflected his competitors"

vex collapse: subject to prolonged examination, discussion, or deliberation; "vex the subject of the death penalty"

irk collapse

muck up collapse

ramify collapse: grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"

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