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Definitionv. be a mystery or bewildering to
Last update: November 17, 2016
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They perplexed him with questions he wasn't able to answer. [verb]
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I question and perplex myself to find a reason for his melancholy. [verb]
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I was perplexed by his rude behaviour. [verb]
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You managed to explain a very perplexing process in simple terms. [verb]
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This reference work is filled with expressions that perplex ESL students, yet do not often appear in dictionaries of slang or idiomatic English. [verb]
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Finally as to such historical difficulties in Acts as still perplex the student of the Apostolic age, one must remember the possibilities of mistake intervening between the facts and the accounts reaching its author, at second or even third hand. [verb]
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She sang this impromptu nonsense _prestissimo_ as she danced out of the room, leaving the accomplished Dorothy vexed and perplexed at not having understood a single word. [verb]
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His daughter had acquired the air of a dexterous barmaid, undisturbed by the circumstances of love and war, so apt to perplex her in the exercise of her vocation. [verb]
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"Sad and perplexed, we brought our poor child back to Sais." [verb]
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"You behave as if you were going to an oyster supper at Kanopus," he said, shaking his head as though perplexed by some incomprehensible problem. [verb]
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Paulus had turned from the lamenting hermits, perplexed and beside himself, and stood with Stephanus watching the fight. [verb]
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