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Bemused

//bɪˈmjuːzd// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    deeply thoughtful; preoccupied
  2. 2
    perplexed and bewildered

    "That left Bradly as bemused as ever, for it posed another incomprehensibility: Why had Podson walked here?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment wordnet
  2. 2
    deeply absorbed in thought wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of bemuse form-of, participle, past

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