befog

After adding befog, we’ve guessed more than three letters for more than 96 percent of all puzzles we might face in Wordle, in four guesses.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2022

No irrational, misguided sentimentality shall befog my firm conviction that Bob Cousy, while still at Holy Cross, retired the title to "The Greatest."

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet every man who has ever lived has at times thought so; but to proclaim the thought—or even entertain it long—would stagger sanity, befog the intellect and make mind lose its way.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard

Something seemed to bear down on his brain and befog his sight.

From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben

Notions like that befog one's mind; one rants of universal brotherhood, of liberty and equality and, of course, transcends every convention and every moral law….

From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Gerhart Hauptmann

As always with the royal family, details about its internal deliberations are elusive and befogged in speculation.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2021

The Steilhang exuded the full gloom of a north face at befogged dawn.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019

But then you arrive and everything is damp, blurred, befogged.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018

Instead of being buried under documents, befogged by facts, you find yourself in the immediate, proximate, breathing presence of another human being — and there’s suddenly no room for anything else.

From Washington Post

When you shout Durham! the gloomy and befogged financial atmosphere becomes clear and there is a mad rush and scramble for her bonds.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

From the frozen Moscow River, from the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of St. Basil, a vapor rose, clouding the skies and befogging the stars.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man finally gets justice at the bar of his own conscience, but it is extorted gradually, reluctantly, with much befogging of the case.

From Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

‘Love’: 1647; a manifest befogging duplication of the ‘love’ in the preceding line.

From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Thomas Stanley

But, as it chanced, Mr. O'Connor's elaborate mechanism for befogging his trail was entirely wasted, for the President, so far as could be learned, said not a thing on the subject to anybody.

From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy

The greatest trouble comes through the befogging emotions.

From Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call