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third-person singular simple present befuddles, present participle befuddling, simple past and past participle befuddled
(transitive) To perplex, confuse (someone). examples
(transitive) To stupefy (someone), especially with alcohol. quotations examples
... to the American and French alcoholics, who drink in order to get drunk and befuddle the brain
1983, Basile Kerblay, Modern Soviet Society, page 290