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Befog

Befog \Be*fog"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Befogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Befogging.]

  1. To involve in a fog; -- mostly as a participle or part. adj.

  2. Hence: To confuse; to mystify.

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befog

vb. 1 To envelop in fog. 2 To confuse; mystify.

WordNet
befog
  1. v. make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds" [syn: obscure, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist]

  2. [also: befogging, befogged]

Usage examples of "befog".

Gately was kind of befogged and prone to misprision for well into his first year clean.

But Schizzy and the other women employees kept themselves untouchable, even those few girls who, unlike Schizzy, did not walk about befogged in an aura of preoccupied frigidity.

The road had become a sort of switchback among shallow glens, and the befogged lamps showed that it was bounded by no paling or hedge or drystone dyke, but marched directly with bent and heather.

I can set a spell round you and it both, to befog one seking it through sorcery.

Nevertheless, creed or no creed, they completely befog any information an assiduous man is able to wheedle from them.

The place was befogged with the exhaled smoke of several kinds of leaves and synthetic mixtures, tobacco being only one.

Our cab had reached the beginnings of the City and I was gazing out of the window, my fingers drumming idly on the half-lowered pane, which was already befogged with moisture, when my thoughts were recalled by a sharp ejaculation from my companion.

It is said that when a pupil leaves the gymnasium, he not only has a comprehensive education, but he KNOWS what he knows--it is not befogged with uncertainty, it is burnt into him so that it will stay.

Upon saying good-bye to Wiggins, I had found a safe cab home and, limp and weary, befogged in mind and fatigued in body, had fallen into bed immediately after climbing my stairs, there to lie comalike through the night.

Everything mental for Gately was kind of befogged and prone to misprision for well into his first year clean.

Latin blunder for self-defense's se defendendo is sic, either a befogged muddling of a professional legal term, or a post-Freudian slip, or (least likely) a very oblique and subtle jab at Gately from a Ewell intimate with the graveyard scene from Hamlet namely V.

Lujon emerged fully from the shadows where Thigpen had spied him, a sharp-toothed rock in a befogged bay, waiting for grief to form around him like a shipwreck.

Remembering in his befogged state how the banestone had killed the powerful Kundalan monster, he reached out.

Cerryl took Leyladin's arm to guide her across a puddle as they turned westward from the befogged and darkened Market Square.

One of her tricks was a time overfold, by which she remained alive on her befogged space-island eternally, while generations of her human slaves came and went.