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Perplexed

//pɚˈplɛkst// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Confused or puzzled.

    "The scientists were perplexed by the new discovery."

  2. 2
    Bewildered.
  3. 3
    Entangled; labyrinthine. obsolete

    ""[…] But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. […]" "Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?""

Adjective
  1. 1
    full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of perplex form-of, participle, past

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