as in to confuse
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
the hotel staff is completely fuddled by the guest's bizarre requests
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Recent Examples of fuddle
In colliding with a new type of animal, a chemical that might once have served to fuddle the wits of pests has been transformed into a glittering lure.
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Gareth Cook, Scientific American, 24 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fuddle
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No one was going to confuse Colossal with the Sierra Club.—
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Few foods confuse foreign visitors quite like brunost, Norwegian brown cheese.—
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Two endangered whales are baffling researchers by continuing to show up along a stretch of U.S coast that is not part of their turf, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries.—
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The haphazard cuts to major projects in red states like Ohio baffled some stakeholders.—
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Across the street, her husband Steve, who nursed Molly through her first fight with breast cancer a few years earlier, sits bewildered in the office of their couples therapist.—
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Carlie thinks the whole thing is hilarious, and Chelsea remains bewildered by any King Cake Baby obsession.—
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Multiple voices in one hand blended into fistfuls of color, and perplexing emphases on accompaniment figures served to distract, rather than elucidate, the musical argument.—
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Dahl was especially perplexed by the response to Evans’s fall.—
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Mathematicians have finally solved a geometry problem that has puzzled the field for decades.—
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Finding today's Connections puzzle a little bit tricky?—
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Murphy’s recent shows at his legacy home base, FX, have been muddled and baroque, but on ABC, he’s got the goods, as evidenced by the premiere episode of his new show set on a luxury cruise ship.—
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But the entire $19.9 million would count on Miami’s books, which muddles the math and complicates potential trades.—
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As disparate and discombobulating as each of these elements seem, they were tied together by the show’s enduring theme, the city of Los Angeles, which was then used to provide a subset of themes for each subsequent episode.—
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Her flashbacks present throughout the film as these trippy visions with a discombobulating first-person POV.—
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“Fuddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fuddle. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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