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Flummox vs Befuddle - What's the difference?

flummox | befuddle |

As verbs the difference between flummox and befuddle

is that flummox is to confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast while befuddle is (label) to perplex, confuse (someone).

flummox

English

Verb

(es)
  • To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 22 , author= , title=Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=With United's movement flummoxing the visitors, Berbatov saw his low shot saved well by Ben Foster on his first return to Old Trafford. }}

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    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

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