puzzled

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpʌ.zl̩d/
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Adjective

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puzzled (comparative more puzzled, superlative most puzzled)

  1. Confused or perplexed.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair [], London: Bradbury and Evans [], published 1848, →OCLC:
      (...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
    • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
      Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.

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Verb

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puzzled

  1. simple past and past participle of puzzle