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puzzled
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
puzzled
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a puzzled/baffled/bewildered expression (=one that shows you are confused or cannot understand something)
▪ I can still recall Dan’s baffled expression when I asked him for an answer.
puzzled
▪ He looked at his son’s puzzled face.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
slightly
▪ He emerged, shaken and slightly puzzled, long hair filled with leaves which he brushed away.
▪ Aschmann was looking at him, slightly puzzled but smiling still.
■ NOUN
expression
▪ Shama, who was lifting herself up on her lame legs, turned with a puzzled expression.
▪ The Colonel was flung back against the wall where he stood, for a moment, a puzzled expression on his face.
frown
▪ The nun's forehead creased into a puzzled frown.
▪ As she scanned the titles Polly's brows contracted in a puzzled frown.
▪ Daak was unusually restrained, standing behind Ace with a hand on her shoulder and a puzzled frown on his face.
▪ Robyn slowed the jeep with a puzzled frown, considering.
▪ William got up from his chair at the workbench and went over to open up with a puzzled frown.
look
▪ Richard's puzzled look alarmed me.
▪ I thought that Neil, still over by the door, had a puzzled look.
▪ They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization.
▪ When the doctor saw me sitting beside the boy a puzzled look crossed his face.
▪ She met it with a puzzled look in her eyes.
▪ He shuddered at his remembrance of royalty's puzzled look when he removed this ostentatious headgear.
▪ She sat up, the puzzled look on her face turning to one of irritation.
▪ Oh yes, Enright remembered him very well, and when I mentioned the name a puzzled look fleetingly crossed his face.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After my explanation, Mandy still had a puzzled expression on her face.
▪ Her reaction left me puzzled.
▪ I'm a little puzzled - why did you call her yourself when I specifically told you I would do it?
▪ The doctor was puzzled by the man's symptoms and ordered several further tests.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All squatted, puzzled and uncertain.
▪ Epitot looked puzzled and removed it again.
▪ He saw the knot of people beyond the flames gazing at him in puzzled amazement, but they made no response.
▪ Hospital staff were puzzled after children collapsed with cardiac arrests and respiratory attacks.
▪ It gathers puzzled observers wherever it goes, too.
▪ Presently, Jaq blanked the eye-screen and relaxed, though with a puzzled air.
▪ She had sounded rather puzzled and insulted.
▪ She looked puzzled and rather angry, and Syl looked old and silly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
puzzled

puzzle \puz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. puzzled (p[u^]z"z'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. puzzling (p[u^]z"zl[i^]ng).]

  1. To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.

    A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others.
    --Dr. H. More.

    He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders.
    --Addison.

  2. To make intricate; to entangle.

    They disentangle from the puzzled skein.
    --Cowper.

    The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error.
    --Addison.

  3. To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.

    Syn: To embarrass; perplex; confuse; bewilder; confound. See Embarrass.

Wiktionary
puzzled

  1. confused or perplexed. v

  2. (en-past of: puzzle)

WordNet
puzzled

adj. filled with bewilderment; "at a loss to understand those remarks"; "puzzled that she left without saying goodbye" [syn: at a loss(p), nonplused, nonplussed]

Usage examples of "puzzled".

Tinwright was puzzled to be in such a place, but felt a little better: surely they would not just kill him outright, if for no other reason than fear of getting blood on the celebrated wall frescoes.

Anissa shrieked, and although Briony was puzzled by what the physician was doing, she could not help feeling that her stepmother was reacting too strongly.

The railings that separated the house from the carriageway caught my eye as they glinted in the bright moonlight, and then for a moment, as my gaze moved on, I was puzzled by something lying at the bottom of the area on my side of the building, before I recognised it as the ladder left by the men working on the roof.

I could see that she was puzzled by the absence of countryside or gardens.

I was rather puzzled as to what to make of all of this and although on the face of it there seemed grounds for suspecting my old friend of a breach of his strict principles on the subject of charity, I was reluctant to think the less of Mr Pentecost.

And I fell asleep thinking about other things in her account that had puzzled me.

Presumably this was at last the full explanation of their conversation, though I was still a little puzzled when I tried to make it fit.

I recalled that Mr Pentecost had told me that the old beggar had given his sight for his principles, and was puzzled to make these two explanations match.

What Mr Barbellion had said confirmed my belief that the Mompessons needed me to remain alive, but I was puzzled by his suggestion that it was not in my interests that my identity be proved.

I was trying to follow what Mr Barbellion was saying for I was puzzled by his opening remarks.

In that case he could have explained some things that puzzled me: why had the Porteouses been so anxious to take me before Chancery?

Everything about your motives that puzzled me before is clear to me now.

I now understood much, I was still puzzled by the purpose of this activity until suddenly Mr Digweed stopped and waited for me to catch him up.

I could not doubt her, though I was very puzzled as to how such an apparent coincidence could not have been premeditated.

And this was the crucial clew for now as I puzzled over it, the solution seemed to come to me.