Mystify

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  • transitive verb. To confuse or bewilder. synonym: perplex.
  • transitive verb. To make obscure or mysterious.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To perplex purposely; play on the credulity of; bewilder; befog.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand.
  • transitive verb. To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of; to baffle.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. be a mystery or bewildering to
  • verb. make mysterious
    • Word Usage
    "I appreciate the clarification, but I don't think your first paragraphs spelled out your own disagreement with Thomas and Scalia, and I don't think that the argument that they are wrong which is what you offer here is the same as the argument that they "mystify" or that they fail to offer reasons which distinguish the position they take here from there general opposition to the use of racial classifications."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    blot out  hide  obliterate  obscure  veil  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    demystify  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    'guess  'i  `let  `see  `tell  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    addle  amaze  around the bush  baffle  baffle  
    variant
    mystified  
    verb-form
    mystified  mystifies  mystifying  
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