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mystify
Word definitions for mystify in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Detective Oakley was mystified. He had never seen such a strange set of evidence in the whole of his career. ▪ Her disappearance has mystified her friends and neighbors. ▪ Why you want to leave such a good job mystifies ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mystify (to mystify) may refer to: making something of mysticism or else "mystical" a 1989 rock song Mystify (song) by INXS Mystification (album)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mystify \Mys"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mystified ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mystifying .] [F. mystifier, fr. Gr. ? + L. -ficare (in comp.) to make. See 1st Mystery , and -fy .] To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, from French mystifier (1772), a verb formed irregularly from mystique "a mystic" (see mystic (adj.)) + -fier (see -fy ). Related: Mystified ; mystifying .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex , vex , stick , get , puzzle , baffle , beat , pose , bewilder , flummox , stupefy , nonplus , gravel ...
Usage examples of mystify.
Bernard, and Return to Parma--A Letter from Hensiette--My Despair De La Haye Becomes Attached to Me--Unpleasant Adventure with an Actress and Its Consequences--I Turn a Thorough Bigot--Bavois--I Mystify a Bragging Officer.
More than mystified by the whole hushed proceeding, Asey followed him through the house, and into the front parlour.
How one man could talk so much mystified Blu, but his aching ears and spinning head were a small price to pay.
Why anyone would want to name her child after a Yankee jewelry store mystified Cig, but then why anyone would keep Tiffany as a receptionist also mystified her.
Mystified, she turned to Fayne as an odd buzzing sensation started in her ears.
Such was my condition when one morning the favourite aunt of the Charpillon paid me a call, and said that they were all mystified at not having seen me since the supper I had given them, especially herself, as her niece had given her to understand that I would furnish her with the means of making the Balm of Life.
The strange crystalline growths that appeared on the screen seemed to mystify Huer as much as they did Kemal.
Beside him walked Zu-tag, the great ape, and behind them strung the surviving anthropoids followed by Fraulein Bertha Kircher and Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick, the latter a thoroughly astonished and mystified Englishman.
Many a wiser man than I had been mystified by dyspepsia and melancholic vapours.
To a mystified and anxious girl, pacing the gravel in front of the Castle, entered the fish-cart.
The mystified Cameron stood speechless, watching his prey vanishing in the company of his mistress.
Lady Claybody sat on a brocaded couch with something of the dignity of the late Queen Victoria, mystified, perturbed, awaiting the explanation which was her due.
He looked into her eyes, and she was mystified to A DANGEROUS FORTUNE 145 see tears behind his spectacles.
His blue eyes were boyish-wide and mystified, and she decided he was somewhat younger than she had first supposed, perhaps hardly older than herself.
I did not pause to ask him what he meant by that or how he knew that I mystified people all the time.