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puzzled
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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).] 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. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
confused or perplexed. v (en-past of: puzzle)
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.