Befuddle vs Nonplus - What's the difference?
befuddle | nonplus | Related terms |
(label) to perplex, confuse (someone)
(label) to stupefy someone, especially with alcohol
* 1983 , Basile Kerblay, Modern Soviet Society , page 290
A state of perplexity or bewilderment.
*, I.46:
*:altering Vaudemont'', to ''Vallemontanus , and metamorphosing them, by suting them to the Græcian or Latin tongue, we know not what to make of them, and are often at a non-plus .
* South
to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox
Befuddle is a related term of nonplus.
As verbs the difference between befuddle and nonplus
is that befuddle is (label) to perplex, confuse (someone) while nonplus is to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox.As a noun nonplus is
a state of perplexity or bewilderment.befuddle
English
Verb
(befuddl)- ... to the American and French alcoholics, who drink in order to get drunk and befuddle the brain
Synonyms
* See alsononplus
English
Noun
(es)- Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding.