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

Laboratories, experiments, tables, classifications are all very vital and all very necessary but sometimes their net result is only to befog and confuse.

From The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon

Sir," with calm energy, "man came into this world, not to sit down and muse, not to befog himself with vain subtleties, but to gird up his loins and to work.

From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville

She rose, and, approaching the table, handed him the timetable, a diabolical labyrinth of incomprehensible figures and words specially compiled by railroad managers to puzzle and befog the traveling public.

From The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life by Eugene Walter

Overruling those just to appease your clearly befogged co-parent is a bad habit to get into right as you’re starting this journey.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022

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

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2021

She wasn’t befogged, as their father had been.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019

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

It clears away some of the clouds befogging us.

From Initials Only by Anna Katharine Green

She seemed to grow afraid, too, of the spell that was befogging them, and sought rescue in a flippancy.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh

And if he didn't he'd tell you so, without befogging the atmosphere with a lot of things he did know, but that wouldn't help you in the least.

From The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Robert Williams Wood

He had not been German long enough for befogging his mind to that point, but the moment was decisive for much to come, especially for political morals.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams