Bewilder
verb
To cause someone to feel confused or lost.
The complex math problem bewildered the students.
Often appears as...
- bewilder someone
- bewilder with complexity
verb
To cause someone to be lost in unfamiliar surroundings.
The winding paths of the forest can bewilder the hikers.
Often appears as...
- bewilder in the forest
- easily bewilder
verb
To cause someone to feel confused or lost.
The complex math problem bewildered the students.
Often appears as...
- bewilder someone
- bewilder with complexity
verb
To cause someone to be lost in unfamiliar surroundings.
The winding paths of the forest can bewilder the hikers.
Often appears as...
- bewilder in the forest
- easily bewilder
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Impact
Bewilder often implies a sense of frustration or helplessness.
The foreign language instructions bewildered the tourists, making them feel helpless.
Pro Tip 2/3Less Intense
'Bewilder' is less intense than 'flabbergast' which suggests shock.
Her unexpected question bewildered him, but didn't flabbergast.
Pro Tip 3/3Sudden Confusion
Use 'bewilder' when confusion arises suddenly, not over time.
His abrupt change in topic bewildered his audience.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Impact
Bewilder often implies a sense of frustration or helplessness.
The foreign language instructions bewildered the tourists, making them feel helpless.
Pro Tip 2/3Less Intense
'Bewilder' is less intense than 'flabbergast' which suggests shock.
Her unexpected question bewildered him, but didn't flabbergast.
Pro Tip 3/3Sudden Confusion
Use 'bewilder' when confusion arises suddenly, not over time.
His abrupt change in topic bewildered his audience.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Impact
Bewilder often implies a sense of frustration or helplessness.
The foreign language instructions bewildered the tourists, making them feel helpless.
Pro Tip 2/3Less Intense
'Bewilder' is less intense than 'flabbergast' which suggests shock.
Her unexpected question bewildered him, but didn't flabbergast.
Pro Tip 3/3Sudden Confusion
Use 'bewilder' when confusion arises suddenly, not over time.
His abrupt change in topic bewildered his audience.
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How to teach kids to...
There's a class of nine- and ten-year-olds, and half of them are in hysterics because they think Abby has said something wildly funny, and the other half are yelling at her for saying something offensive. And then you have Abby, sitting there completely bewildered because, in her mind, she doesn't understand the weight of what she said
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The wicked wit of Jane...
to arguing that masks attraction, her work explores the bewildering collision of emotions and etiquette. But while romance is a common thread in her work, Austen dismissed the sentimental style of writing so popular at the time. Instead of lofty love stories, her characters act naturally, and often awkwardly.
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Aja Monet and phillip...
walls of palm trees that guided our guests into our backyard, where our neighbors would come and feel right at home. The wind -- the wind was an affirmation for the people who walked into the space. And we learned that in a world -- a bewildering world of so much distraction --
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Pico Iyer: A Portable...
transformed itself after World War two she transformed her life in the next few months when I met her she'd never been on a plane she'd never been really outside her hometown of Kyoto and a few months later she was an international tour guide leading even more bewildered
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The myth of Gawain and...
But to his surprise, his companions absolved him of blame and celebrated his valor. Struggling to understand this strange journey, it seemed to Gawain that perhaps the whole world was playing a game— with rules more wild and bewildering than any man could understand.
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What makes something...
and made to go through a bewildering process where neither the cause of his arrest, nor the nature of the judicial proceedings are made clear to him. This sort of scenario is considered so characteristic of Kafka's work that scholars came up with a new word for it.
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When I die, recompose me...
and the community which they serve. The other idea is for supportive staff to be on hand to help families with the care and preparation of loved ones' bodies. We're banishing practices that bewilder and disempower
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Thinking your way out of...
explorer who said I was never lost but it was bewildered once for three days that is a very good refrain somebody in serious need of a refrain was a friend of mine who was asked to put together a
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This new telescope might...
for planets orbiting other stars. They come in a bewildering variety of different kinds. There are Jupiter-like planets that are hot, there are other planets that are icy, there are water worlds
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Underwater Ambush from...
The herd is bewildered. Some have never seen a crocodile before.
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How to teach kids to...
There's a class of nine- and ten-year-olds, and half of them are in hysterics because they think Abby has said something wildly funny, and the other half are yelling at her for saying something offensive. And then you have Abby, sitting there completely bewildered because, in her mind, she doesn't understand the weight of what she said
Video examples
The wicked wit of Jane...
to arguing that masks attraction, her work explores the bewildering collision of emotions and etiquette. But while romance is a common thread in her work, Austen dismissed the sentimental style of writing so popular at the time. Instead of lofty love stories, her characters act naturally, and often awkwardly.
Video examples
Aja Monet and phillip...
walls of palm trees that guided our guests into our backyard, where our neighbors would come and feel right at home. The wind -- the wind was an affirmation for the people who walked into the space. And we learned that in a world -- a bewildering world of so much distraction --
Video examples
Pico Iyer: A Portable...
transformed itself after World War two she transformed her life in the next few months when I met her she'd never been on a plane she'd never been really outside her hometown of Kyoto and a few months later she was an international tour guide leading even more bewildered
Video examples
The myth of Gawain and...
But to his surprise, his companions absolved him of blame and celebrated his valor. Struggling to understand this strange journey, it seemed to Gawain that perhaps the whole world was playing a game— with rules more wild and bewildering than any man could understand.
Video examples
What makes something...
and made to go through a bewildering process where neither the cause of his arrest, nor the nature of the judicial proceedings are made clear to him. This sort of scenario is considered so characteristic of Kafka's work that scholars came up with a new word for it.
Video examples
When I die, recompose me...
and the community which they serve. The other idea is for supportive staff to be on hand to help families with the care and preparation of loved ones' bodies. We're banishing practices that bewilder and disempower
Video examples
Thinking your way out of...
explorer who said I was never lost but it was bewildered once for three days that is a very good refrain somebody in serious need of a refrain was a friend of mine who was asked to put together a
Video examples
This new telescope might...
for planets orbiting other stars. They come in a bewildering variety of different kinds. There are Jupiter-like planets that are hot, there are other planets that are icy, there are water worlds
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Underwater Ambush from...
The herd is bewildered. Some have never seen a crocodile before.
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Michael Arrington
American Businessman
I've always believed that government tends to screw up whatever it touches, but Obama in particular seemed different. He understood tech issues that left the other candidates bewildered. Part of it may be his age. But whatever the reason, I had real hope that he could help lead us into a new century of technology leadership and growth.
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Saint-John Perse
French Diplomat
Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.
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Lester Holt
American Journalist
At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.
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Karl Marlantes
American Author
For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
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Arthur Keith
Scottish Scientist
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.
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Carey Mulligan
English Actress
I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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Nathaniel Branden
American Psychologist
When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
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Roger Michell
English Actor
Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.
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Owen Arthur
Barbadian Statesman
Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
We live in a bewildering world.
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Michael Arrington
American Businessman
I've always believed that government tends to screw up whatever it touches, but Obama in particular seemed different. He understood tech issues that left the other candidates bewildered. Part of it may be his age. But whatever the reason, I had real hope that he could help lead us into a new century of technology leadership and growth.
Quote examples
Saint-John Perse
French Diplomat
Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.
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Lester Holt
American Journalist
At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.
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Karl Marlantes
American Author
For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
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Arthur Keith
Scottish Scientist
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.
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Carey Mulligan
English Actress
I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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Nathaniel Branden
American Psychologist
When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
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Roger Michell
English Actor
Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.
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Owen Arthur
Barbadian Statesman
Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
We live in a bewildering world.
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