Crossword clues for bemuse
bemuse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bemuse \Be*muse"\, v. t. To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.
A parson much bemused in beer.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To confuse or bewilder. 2 (context archaic humorous English) To devote to the Muses.
WordNet
v. cause to be confused emotionally [syn: bewilder, discombobulate, throw]
Usage examples of "bemuse".
British fans put on displays of public affection that the staid, puritanical American attendees beheld in bemused astonishment.
Father Cesare, used to his fits of rage, simply settle in a chair opposite him with a bemused grin on his fleshy face.
She stared up at me brightly, and I caught a brief vision of Sara in full regalia pleading a case before a bemused Judge Cloke and twelve goggle-eyed jurors.
Ztang dehisced, scattering a rattle of seeds across the floor, but everyone else offered upbeat, if bemused, encouragement.
Relieved not to have to bear an angry stare from Josef or a bemused grin from old Filip over her tumble, she hunkered behind a thick bush and peered out to the tracks.
Bemused, she stood and watched him walk out of The Gilded Lily and mount the black bike.
He listened to the wash of his own blood in his lungs and seemed to hear Hornfels bemused sigh again.
As luck would have it, Katya was exceedingly dull-witted and bemused that day, so much so that Madame Leotard was incredulous.
But she was bemused and a little distracted, with the makings of a smile on her lips.
The apprentice shot one last venomous look at the bemused Raffing and slipped through the crowd toward the door.
And as they skirted a rockery that some bemused enthusiast had caused to be made out of old bricks and black clinkers, Moorhouse thought of the Avon valley, and wondered what Mrs.
It was almost a year since he had first seen her, surrounded by bemused merchants and urchins in the Sabzi Market, looking terrified.
So, though her lungs filled with foul water, though her heart stopped, as did all other discernible functions of the body and mind, there she stood when finally retrieved from the canal, sheathed in mud, eyes dull and the whites browned by burst vessels and lifeless blood, all in all most miserable and sadly bemused.
In the thunderous shaking of canvas hands gazed aft for orders: Somers stared, bemused.
Bemused and curious, Syd climbed down from the cab of his shiny red truck.