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empuzzle

empuzzle verb: to puzzle.

Verb

empuzzle (third-person singular simple present empuzzles, present participle empuzzling, simple past and past participle empuzzled)

  1. (obsolete) To puzzle.
    • It hath empuzzeled the enquiries of others to apprehend […] how without fear or doubt she could discourse with such a creature, or hear a Serpent speak, without suspition of imposture.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 1
    • They twist and trip and intervolve it well,
      Flinging their phasms fantastically high,
      Circling her chair with maze inscrutable,
      Not to be follow’d by th’ empuzzled eye.1822, William Tennant, The Thane of Fife, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Canto II, Stanza 64, p. 83

Forms of empuzzle

third-person singular presentempuzzles
present participleempuzzling
past participleempuzzled
pastempuzzled

Origin of empuzzle

From em- + puzzle.

Questions about empuzzle

What does empuzzle mean?
Empuzzle means to puzzle.
What part of speech is empuzzle?
Empuzzle is a verb.
What is the past tense of empuzzle?
The past tense of empuzzle is empuzzled.

Words near empuzzle in the dictionary

  1. empuse
  2. empusellous
  3. empuses
  4. empusid
  5. empusids
  6. empuzzle
  7. empuzzled
  8. empuzzles
  9. empuzzling
  10. empyema
  11. empyemas

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