Perplex vs Bamboozle - What's the difference?
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To cause to feel baffled; to .
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
* John Locke
(obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
(informal) To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.
* 1851 ,
*:“Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”
Perplex is a related term of bamboozle.
As verbs the difference between perplex and bamboozle
is that perplex is to cause to feel baffled; to while bamboozle is (informal) to con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.As an adjective perplex
is (obsolete) intricate; difficult.perplex
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Verb
(es)- What was thought obscure, perplexed , and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
- (Glanvill)