mystify
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From French mystifier, from Ancient Greek μυστικός (mystikos, “secret, mystic”) + Latin -ficare.
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mystify (third-person singular simple present mystifies, present participle mystifying, simple past and past participle mystified)
- (transitive) to thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder
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- Solar eclipses continued to mystify ancient humans for thousands of years.
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to thoroughly confuse, befuddle or bewilder
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[edit] External links
- mystify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- mystify in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- mystify at OneLook Dictionary Search
