Perplex

//pɚˈplɛks//

Synonyms for "perplex" (218 found)

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Translations

30 translations across 15 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • обърквам verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • смущавам verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 使困惑 verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Czech

1 entries
  • zaskočit verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • perpleksigi verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Finnish

3 entries
  • askarruttaa verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • hämmentää verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • saattaa ymmälle verb (to cause to feel baffled)

French

3 entries
  • déconcerter verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • dérouter verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • troubler verb (to cause to feel baffled)

German

1 entries
  • verwirren verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Greek

2 entries
  • μπερδεύω verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • σαστίζω verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Italian

4 entries
  • allibire verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • lasciare di stucco verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • perplettere verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • perplimere verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Māori

1 entries
  • whakahēhē verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Occitan

2 entries
  • desconcertar verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • desmemoriar verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • desconcertar verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • pasmar verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • vexar verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Russian

2 entries
  • запутывать verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • озадачивать verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Spanish

2 entries
  • dejar perplejo verb (to cause to feel baffled)
  • perplejizar verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Swedish

1 entries
  • förvirra verb (to cause to feel baffled)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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"Thus while they waver and, perplex with doubt, / urge diverse counsels, and in parts divide, / lo, from the citadel, foremost of a rout, / breathless Laocoon runs, and from afar cries out: / 'Ah! wretched townsmen! do ye think the foe / gone, or that guileless are their gifts? O blind / with madness! Thus Ulysses do ye know?'"

Source: tatoeba (6804543)

What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.

Source: wiktionary

The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]

Source: wiktionary

Chloe's the wonder of her sex, 'Tis well her heart is tender, How might such killing eyes perplex, With virtue to defend her.

Source: wiktionary

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