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Another word for perplex

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perplex

v.

puzzle, confound, bewilder; see confuse. See syn. study at confuse.

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Another word for perplex

verb

To cause to be unclear in mind or intent:
addle, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, discombobulate, dizzy, fuddle, jumble, mix up, muddle, mystify, puzzle. (Informal) throw. Idiom: make one's head reel (or swim) (or whirl). See clear, feelings
To make complex, intricate, or perplexing:
complicate, embarrass, entangle, involve, ravel, snarl², tangle. See simple

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Conversations, actions and minute details that the person would have no way of knowing perplex scientists.
Finally as to such historical difficulties in Acts as still perplex the student of the Apostolic age, one must remember the possibilities of mistake intervening between the facts and the accounts reaching its author, at second or even third hand.

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