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Befogged

adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Obscured with fog or smoke; murky.

    "1614, John Taylor, “Plutoes Proclamation concerning his Infernall pleasure for the Propagation of Tobacco” in The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses, London: Nathaniel Butter, […] euery one a Furies shape assumes, Befog’d and clouded with my hel-hatch’d fumes."

  2. 2
    Caught in fog.

    "[…] this morning he was close aboard the N. Coast, it seemeth high ragged land and full of guts, he was becalmed and befogged, and stood S. wards into the channell […]"

  3. 3
    Confused, muddled.

    "[…] you speake you wot not what, you are altogether befogd and benighted in this question."

Adjective
  1. 1
    stupefied by alcoholic drink wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of befog form-of, participle, past

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