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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me-- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1837 confuse

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. colloq. bewilder, confound, disconcert. Etymology: 19th c.: prob. dial., imit.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(flummoxes, flummoxing, flummoxed) If someone is flummoxed by something, they are confused by it and do not know what to do or say. The two leaders were flummoxed by the suggestion. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed • flummoxed No wonder Josef was feeling a bit flummoxed. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

abash, addle, addle the wits, baffle, balk, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bewilder, blast, bomb, bother, brave, bug, challenge, checkmate, circumvent, cloud, confound, confront, confuse, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, crap out, cross, dash, daze, dazzle, deceive, defeat, defy, destroy, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dish, dismay, disorganize, disorient, disrupt, disturb, draw a blank, drop a bomb, drop the ball, elude, embarrass, entangle, fan, flop, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, foil, fold, fold up, fox, frustrate, fuddle, fuss, get left, hoodwink, knock the chocks, lay an egg, lose out, maze, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, mystify, nonplus, not hack it, not make it, perplex, perturb, pother, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, ruin, sabotage, scotch, spike, spoil, stonewall, strike out, stump, stymie, take the count, throw into confusion, thwart, unsettle, upset, wash out, whiff