Befuddle vs Bewildered - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between befuddle and bewildered

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

baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain.

(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

* See also

(en adjective)

Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain.

He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.

* bewilderedly

(head)

(bewilder)