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mystify

/ˈmɪstɪfaɪ/

mystify verb: to thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.

Verb

mystify (third-person singular simple present mystifies, present participle mystifying, simple past and past participle mystified)

  1. (transitive) To thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.
    • Solar eclipses continued to mystify ancient humans for thousands of years.
    • I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

mystify meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

mystify in Tamil

திகைப்புண்டாக்கு

mystify in Bengali

হতবুদ্ধি করা, বিভ্রান্ত করা, রহস্যময় করে তোলা

mystify in Malayalam

നിഗൂഢമാക്കുക, അജ്ഞാതമായ അവസ്ഥയിലാക്കുക

mystify in Kannada

ಪೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿಸು, ತಬ್ಬಿಬ್ಬಾಗಿಸು, ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಮಣ್ಣೆರಚು, ವಂಚಿಸು, ಗುಟ್ಟುಮಾಡು, ರಹಸ್ಯದ ಮುಸುಕು ಹಾಕು

Examples of mystify in a sentence

  • This episode is another in a series of mystifying maneuvers made at the time.
  • And my father was named for General Brock." "General Brock?" she asked, mystified.
  • 'Do I happen to have it for disposal?' repeated Mr Carlyle in a slightly mystified tone.

All 12 example sentences with mystify

Forms of mystify

third-person singular presentmystifies
present participlemystifying
past participlemystified
pastmystified

Origin of mystify

From French mystifier, from Ancient Greek μυστικός (mustikós, “secret, mystic”) + Latin -ficare.

Words formed from mystify

Questions about mystify

What does mystify mean?
Mystify means to thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.
What is mystify in Tamil?
Mystify in Tamil is திகைப்புண்டாக்கு. See Mystify meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mystify?
Mystify is a verb.
How do you pronounce mystify?
Mystify is pronounced /ˈmɪstɪfaɪ/.
What is the past tense of mystify?
The past tense of mystify is mystified.

Words near mystify in the dictionary

  1. mystified
  2. mystifiedly
  3. mystifier
  4. mystifiers
  5. mystifies
  6. mystify
  7. mystifying
  8. mystifyingly
  9. mystique
  10. mystiques
  11. mysto

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mystify (page history and authors); mystify (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mystify (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mystify (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mystify (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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