Perplex vs Vex - 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.
To trouble aggressively, to harass.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XII:
To annoy, irritate.
To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
(rare) To twist, to weave.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
* Alexander Pope
In transitive terms the difference between perplex and vex
is that perplex is to involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated while vex is to toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.As an adjective perplex
is intricate; difficult.As a noun VEX is
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English
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)
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English
Verb
(es)- In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregacion, to vexe them.
- Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
- some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom
- (Chapman)
- White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.