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Befuddle vs Bemuse - What's the difference?

befuddle | bemuse |

As verbs the difference between befuddle and bemuse

is that befuddle is (label) to perplex, confuse (someone) while bemuse is to confuse or bewilder.

befuddle

English

Verb

(befuddl)
  • (label) to perplex, confuse (someone)
  • (label) to stupefy someone, especially with alcohol
  • * 1983 , Basile Kerblay, Modern Soviet Society , page 290
    • ... to the American and French alcoholics, who drink in order to get drunk and befuddle the brain

    Synonyms

    * See also

    bemuse

    English

    Verb

    (bemus)
  • To confuse or bewilder.
  • * 1735' A parson much '''be-mus'd in beer. — Alexander Pope, ''Satires of Dr. Donne versified
  • * 1771' [With] fairy tales '''bemused the shepherd lies. — James Foot, ''Penseroso
  • * 1847' The bad metaphysics with which they '''bemuse themselves. — Hugh Miller, ''First Impressions of England and its people
  • (archaic, humorous) To devote to the Muses.
  • * 1705' When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably '''Be-mus'd . — Alexander Pope, ''Letters