Word.ws English Dictionary

empuzzled

empuzzled is the simple past and past participle of empuzzle.

Meaning of empuzzle

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

Questions about empuzzled

What is empuzzled the simple past and past participle of?
Empuzzled is the simple past and past participle of empuzzle.

Words near empuzzled in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: empuzzled (page history and authors); empuzzle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “empuzzled.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/empuzzled. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.