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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Verb

(elud)

To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.

* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 26.

Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.

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To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.