perplex

Definitions


[pəˈplɛks], (Verb)

Definitions:
- make (someone) feel completely baffled
(e.g: she was perplexed by her husband's moodiness)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century (as the adjective perplexed): from the obsolete adjective perplex ‘bewildered’, from Latin perplexus ‘entangled’, based on plexus ‘interwoven’, from the verb plectere




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