be baffled
Frequency: 8.025.1 per million words
Used to describe a state of confusion.
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Examples (10)
- The doctors are completely baffled by her mysterious illness.
- I am often baffled by the complex rules of this game.
- The police were baffled as to how the thief entered the locked room.
- He was utterly baffled when his key wouldn't fit the lock.
- We will probably be baffled by the results of the experiment.
- She looked at me as if I were talking nonsense; she was clearly baffled.
- Even the expert mechanic was baffled about what was wrong with the car's engine.
- The audience was left baffled by the magician's final trick.
- To be honest, I'm totally baffled by your decision to quit.
- The jury was baffled by the conflicting testimonies.