Bewilder vs Puzzled - What's the difference?
bewilder | puzzled |
(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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Confused or perplexed.
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* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
(puzzle)
As verbs the difference between bewilder and puzzled
is that bewilder is to confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things while puzzled is past tense of puzzle.As an adjective puzzled is
confused or perplexed.bewilder
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Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* bewilderedly * bewilderedness * bewilderer * bewildermentExternal links
* *puzzled
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Adjective
(en adjective)Vanity Fair, Bradbury and Sons, 11:
- (...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
- Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.