Perplex

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  • transitive verb. To confuse or trouble with uncertainty or doubt.
  • transitive verb. To make confusedly intricate; complicate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Intricate; difficult.
  • noun. A difficulty; an entanglement; something hard to understand; a perplexity.
  • To make intricate; involve; entangle; make complicated and difficult to be understood or unraveled.
  • To embarrass; puzzle; distract; bewilder; trouble with suspense, anxiety, or ambiguity.
  • Synonyms To complicate, tangle, snarl.
  • Puzzle, etc. (see embarrass), confuse, harass, pose, nonplus, put to a stand, mystify.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Intricate; difficult.
  • transitive verb. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood.
  • transitive verb. To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety.
  • transitive verb. To plague; to vex; to tormen.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
  • adjective. intricate; difficult
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. be a mystery or bewildering to
  • verb. make more complicated
  • Word Usage
    "Thus, our "unfinished feeling" represents in itself an obscure demand for a resolution of the unadjusted; it corresponds to that inner compulsion which operates upon the imperfect consciousness of the dreamer, or upon the mentality of any person seeking the solution of a problem or "perplex," either asleep, or awake -- as I trust you all still remain."
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