Perplex vs Stupefy - What's the difference?
perplex | stupefy |
To cause to feel baffled; to .
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
* John Locke
(obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle.
As verbs the difference between perplex and stupefy
is that perplex is to cause to feel baffled; to while stupefy is to dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle.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)