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Befuddle vs Explicate - What's the difference?

befuddle | explicate |

As verbs the difference between befuddle and explicate

is that befuddle is (label) to perplex, confuse (someone) while explicate is to explain meticulously or in great detail; to elucidate; to analyze.

As an adjective explicate is

(obsolete) evolved; unfolded.

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

    explicate

    English

    Verb

    (explicat)
  • To explain meticulously or in great detail; to elucidate; to analyze.
    • My homework is to explicate a poem.

    Related terms

    * explication * explicative * explicator * explicit

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Evolved; unfolded.
    • (Jeremy Taylor)
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