Meaning & use
bewilder
To confuse someone completely, especially so that they do not know what to do.
See it in a sentence
The complicated tax form bewildered even the accountant reviewing it.
Conflicting directions from her two managers left the new employee thoroughly bewildered.
A note on using this word
Bewilder is often used in the passive, as 'be bewildered by,' to describe a state of confused disorientation.
Words with a similar meaning
confusebaffleperplex
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Words with an opposite meaning
enlightenclarify
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