Definition of "befogged"
befogged
adjective
comparative more befogged, superlative most befogged
Obscured with fog or smoke; murky.
Quotations
Standing half-befogged upon the mountain of his Fate, all that part of the wide panorama was wrapped in clouds to him; but anon those concealings slid aside, or rather, a quick rent was made in them; […]
1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book V. Misgivings and Preparatives.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], section V, page 142
Peter Baron, as he sat in his corner while the train stopped, considered, in the befogged gaslight, the bookstall standard of literature and asked himself whose character had fallen to pieces now.
1892, Henry James, “Sir Dominick Ferrand”, in The Real Thing and Other Tales, New York: Macmillan, published 1893, page 46
Quotations
The fact is, he knew every rock, the set of every current at every season of the year, and in his younger days had often gone to the assistance of befogged vessels and piloted them safely into harbour or clear of the coast.
1912, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, chapter 20, in Blessington’s Folly, London: John Long, page 306
Quotations
If I could only get back to the inscription or the grotto I felt the rest would be easy to accomplish, but the more I rambled the more utterly befogged I got.
1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXIX