- present tense form of befuddle (3rd person singular).
befuddles
Example Sentences
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But the decision to allow Parias to leave the scene, while still handcuffed, befuddles her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
It still befuddles me whenever I think of it, but why the heck is bacon packaging so incredibly un-user-friendly?
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2023
The chief concern is whether hostile countries are fielding aerial technology so advanced and weird that it befuddles and threatens the world’s largest military power.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2021
“The reason the ‘Latino vote’ befuddles is because it doesn’t exist, nor do ‘Latino issues,’” Isvett Verde, an opinion editor at The New York Times, wrote in an election postmortem.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2020
Grape-growers are not in the fog that befuddles growers of tree-fruits in regard to tillage.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
