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Bewilder vs Baffled - What's the difference?

bewilder | baffled |

As a verb bewilder

is (label) to confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.

As an adjective baffled is

thoroughly confused, puzzled.

bewilder

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.
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  • *:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
  • (label) To disorientate someone.
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  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * bewilderedly * bewilderedness * bewilderer * bewilderment

    baffled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • thoroughly confused, puzzled
  • having baffles
  • See also

    * baffle