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Puzzled   /pˈəzəld/   Listen
Puzzled

adjective
1.
Filled with bewilderment.  Synonyms: at a loss, nonplused, nonplussed.  "Puzzled that she left without saying goodbye"


Puzzle

verb
(past & past part. puzzled; pres. part. puzzling)
1.
Be a mystery or bewildering to.  Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, stick, stupefy, vex.  "Got me--I don't know the answer!" , "A vexing problem" , "This question really stuck me"
2.
Be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide.



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"Puzzled" Quotes from Famous Books



... first year of my marriage, my first appearance in the country, and I was rather puzzled about my dress for the occasion. We were asked to dinner at seven o'clock. My first idea was to wear full dress—light-blue satin and diamonds—but a niece of Mme. A.'s, who was staying with us and who had been to some entertainments in that part of the country, advised me strongly ...
— Chateau and Country Life in France • Mary King Waddington
... our distresses, perplexities, and troubles of this period, we were not a little puzzled to know how to dispose of the vermin that would accumulate upon our persons, notwithstanding all our attempts at cleanliness. To catch them was a very easy task, but to undertake to deprive each individual captive of life, as rapidly as they could have been taken, would have been a more ...
— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge
... Wogan was immediately puzzled by the curious look Lady Featherstone gave him. The words were a mere excuse, yet she seemed to take them very seriously. Her eyes ...
— Clementina • A.E.W. Mason
... Now this puzzled him so that he thought he must ask somebody about it. Close to him was a big dock and at the dock was a flat barge. A lot of men were unloading coal from her. He walked up to one. "Please," he said, ...
— Here and Now Story Book - Two- to seven-year-olds • Lucy Sprague Mitchell
... puzzled, and its animation faded away. "None that I know. This is positively the first time we ever ...
— The Puppet Crown • Harold MacGrath


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