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Bemused vs Bewilder - What's the difference?

bemused | bewilder |

As verbs the difference between bemused and bewilder

is that bemused is (bemuse) while bewilder is (label) to confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.

As an adjective bemused

is deeply thoughtful; preoccupied.

bemused

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bemuse)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • deeply thoughtful; preoccupied
  • perplexed and bewildered

    • bewilder

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.
  • :
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  • *:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
  • (label) To disorientate someone.
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    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * bewilderedly * bewilderedness * bewilderer * bewilderment

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