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bemuddled

bemuddled is the simple past and past participle of bemuddle.

Meaning of bemuddle

Verb

bemuddle (third-person singular simple present bemuddles, present participle bemuddling, simple past and past participle bemuddled)

  1. (archaic) to confuse, distort
    • He is swallowed up, body and soul, in law; he eats, drinks, plays (at the card table) Law, nothing but Law. He acts Ignoramus in the play so thoroughly, that you w'd swear that in the inmost marrow of his head (is not this the proper anatomical term?) there have housed themselves not devils but...1822, Charles and Mary Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6)

Adjective

bemuddled (comparative more bemuddled, superlative most bemuddled)

  1. Confused; bewildered.
    • He was conscious by experience that he possessed an utterly treacherous memory, and having had occasion to move the treasure from one spot to another he feared that when the time came his bemuddled shade would be unable to locate it.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

Forms of bemuddled

comparativemore bemuddled
superlativemost bemuddled

Questions about bemuddled

What does bemuddled mean?
Bemuddled means confused; bewildered.
What is bemuddled the simple past and past participle of?
Bemuddled is the simple past and past participle of bemuddle.
What part of speech is bemuddled?
Bemuddled is an adjective.

Words near bemuddled in the dictionary

  1. bemudded
  2. bemuddied
  3. bemuddies
  4. bemudding
  5. bemuddle
  6. bemuddled
  7. bemuddlement
  8. bemuddles
  9. bemuddling
  10. bemuddy
  11. bemuddying

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