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Befuddle vs Nonplus - What's the difference?

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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)
  • (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

    nonplus

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • 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
  • Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding.

    Verb

  • to perplex or bewilder someone; to confound or flummox
  • Derived terms

    * nonplussed