Puzzle - English meaning

verb

Totally bewilder or perplex.

Usage examples:

An unexplained occurrence that baffled everyone

noun

A device used to restrain the flow of a fluid, gas, etc. or to prevent the spreading of sound or light in a particular direction.

Usage examples:

You can cut out glare from a strip light by concealing it behind a baffle

verb

To cause someone to be unable to understand or explain something

Usage examples:

Even his friends were baffled by his behavior., a baffling mystery

verb

Strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip.

Usage examples:

If we were caught we were beaten

noun

A main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry.

Usage examples:

The glissando begins on the second beat

adjective

Short for beatnik.

verb

Puzzle, confuse, or bewilder (someone).

Usage examples:

He was bemused by what was happening

verb

To slightly confuse someone

Usage examples:

Her answer bemused us all.

verb

Cause (someone) to become perplexed and confused.

Usage examples:

She was bewildered by his sudden change of mood

verb

To confuse someone

Usage examples:

The instructions completely bewildered me.

verb

Cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by not according with their expectations.

Usage examples:

The inflation figure confounded economic analysts

exclamation

Used to express anger or annoyance.

Usage examples:

Oh confound it, where is the thing?

verb

To confuse and very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with a situation

Usage examples:

Confound someone by doing something a man has confounded doctors by recovering after he was officia…

verb

Make (someone) bewildered or perplexed.

Usage examples:

Past and present blurred together, confusing her still further

verb

To cause someone to feel uncertain or unclear, or to make something difficult to understand

Usage examples:

You’re confusing me – please repeat the directions more slowly., you’re confusing me with my sister…

verb

To mix up someone's mind or ideas, or to make something difficult to understand

Usage examples:

You're confusing him! tell him slowly and one thing at a time., stop confusing the issue (= making …

adjective

(of a person) unable to think clearly; bewildered.

Usage examples:

She was utterly confused about what had happened

verb

Make (someone) bewildered or perplexed.

Usage examples:

Past and present blurred together, confusing her still further

adjective

Unable to think clearly or to understand something

Usage examples:

Grandpa gets pretty confused sometimes, and doesn't even know what day it is., i'm a bit confused. …

noun

A confusing and difficult problem or question.

Usage examples:

One of the most difficult conundrums for the experts

noun

A problem that is difficult to deal with

Usage examples:

Arranging childcare over the school holidays can be a real conundrum for working parents.

noun

A question that is a trick, often involving a humorous use of words that have two meanings

verb

Disconcert or confuse (someone).

Usage examples:

This attitude totally discombobulated bruce

verb

To confuse someone or make someone feel uncomfortable

noun

A person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand.

Usage examples:

Madeleine was still an enigma to him

noun

Someone or something that is mysterious and impossible to understand

Usage examples:

He is an enigma to most people., an enigmatic smile

noun

Something that is mysterious and seems impossible to understand completely

Usage examples:

She is something of an enigma., the newspapers were full of stories about the enigma of the plane's…

verb

Disturb or disconcert (someone).

Usage examples:

She was not fazed by his show of anger

verb

To upset or confuse someone

Usage examples:

Speaking in public does not faze her.

verb

To surprise and worry someone

Usage examples:

No one is fazed by the sight of guns here any more.

verb

Perplex (someone) greatly; bewilder.

Usage examples:

I was completely flummoxed by the whole thing

verb

To confuse someone so much that they do not know what to do

Usage examples:

I have to say that last question flummoxed me.

noun

A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface which obscures or restricts visibility (to a greater extent than mist; strictly, reducing visibility to below 1 km).

Usage examples:

The collision occurred in thick fog

verb

(with reference to a glass surface) cover or become covered with steam.

Usage examples:

Hot steam drifted about her, fogging up the window

noun

The grass which grows in a field after a crop of hay has been taken.

Usage examples:

If the humidity is too high, the fog just grows and grows out of control.

noun

A loose aggregation of small water-worn or pounded stones.

Usage examples:

Keep their roots shaded with gravel or some large stones, mulch them now and then and they'll be ha…

verb

Cover (an area of ground) with gravel.

Usage examples:

They gravelled the road

noun

A network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which one has to find a way.

Usage examples:

The house has a maze and a walled italian garden

verb

Be dazed and confused.

Usage examples:

She was still mazed with the drug she had taken

noun

Something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain.

Usage examples:

The mysteries of outer space

noun

A handicraft or trade, especially when referred to in indentures.

noun

Something strange or unknown which has not yet been explained or understood

Usage examples:

[ c ] despite years of study, sleepwalking remains a mystery., [ u ] the details of the scandal are…

verb

Utterly bewilder or perplex (someone).

Usage examples:

I was completely mystified by his disappearance

verb

To confuse someone or make someone uncertain by doing or involving the person in something difficult to explain

Usage examples:

Doctors were mystified by her high fever and headaches.

verb

Surprise and confuse (someone) so much that they are unsure how to react.

Usage examples:

Diane was nonplussed by such an odd question

noun

A state of being very surprised and confused.

Usage examples:

Reduced to a perfect nonplus, he rose from his chair

verb

Make obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.

Usage examples:

The spelling changes will deform some familiar words and obfuscate their etymological origins

verb

To make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally

Usage examples:

She was criticized for using arguments that obfuscated the main issue., companies deliberately obfu…

noun

A seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true.

Usage examples:

The uncertainty principle leads to all sorts of paradoxes, like the particles being in two places a…

noun

A statement or situation that may be true but seems impossible or difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts or characteristics

Usage examples:

It’s a strange paradox that people who say you shouldn’t criticize the government criticize it as s…

verb

Make (someone) feel completely baffled.

Usage examples:

She was perplexed by her husband's moodiness

verb

To cause someone to be confused or uncertain over something that is not understood

Usage examples:

The symptoms of the disease have continued to perplex her doctors., just when it appeared that inte…

verb

To confuse and worry someone slightly by being difficult to understand or solve

Usage examples:

The disease has continued to perplex doctors.

adjective

Completely baffled; very puzzled.

Usage examples:

She gave him a perplexed look

verb

Make (someone) feel completely baffled.

Usage examples:

She was perplexed by her husband's moodiness

adjective

Confused, because something is difficult to understand or solve

Usage examples:

The students looked perplexed, so the teacher tried to explain once again., police were perplexed b…

verb

Present or constitute (a problem or danger).

Usage examples:

The sheer number of visitors is posing a threat to the area

noun

A way of standing or sitting, especially in order to be photographed, painted, or drawn.

Usage examples:

Photographs of boxers in ferocious poses

verb

Puzzle or perplex (someone) with a question or problem.

Usage examples:

We have thus posed the mathematician and the historian

noun

A person who poses; a poseur.

Usage examples:

‘canned hunts’ are for phonies and posers and dandy boys.

noun

A difficult or perplexing question or problem.

Usage examples:

She throws the question back with the poser, ‘why not?’

noun

A problem or question that is difficult to solve or answer

Usage examples:

Who was the last woman to win three olympic gold medals? that's quite a poser.

noun

A matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome.

Usage examples:

They have financial problems

adjective

Denoting or relating to people whose behaviour causes difficulties to themselves and others.

Usage examples:

Practitioners help families develop strategies for managing problem behaviour in teens

noun

Something that causes difficulty or that is hard to deal with

Usage examples:

Financing the camp’s athletic program is a problem., he has a serious health problem., i’m having p…

noun

A sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information.

Usage examples:

We hope this leaflet has been helpful in answering your questions

verb

Ask (someone) questions, especially in an official context.

Usage examples:

Four men were being questioned about the killings

verb

A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply

noun

A question or statement intentionally phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning.

Usage examples:

They started asking riddles and telling jokes

verb

Speak in or pose riddles.

Usage examples:

He who knows not how to riddle

noun

A large coarse sieve, especially one used for separating ashes from cinders or sand from gravel.

Usage examples:

For inside the mill, the shelling stones began to turn, the riddles (large-meshed sieves) rhythmica…

noun

The bottom part of a tree left projecting from the ground after most of the trunk has fallen or been cut down.

Usage examples:

In addition the tree covered quite a large area which, once the stump has been ground out and the s…

verb

(of a question or problem) be too hard for; baffle.

Usage examples:

Education chiefs were stumped by some of the exam questions

noun

A puzzling question.

Usage examples:

This one's a stumper

verb

Propel (something) with force through the air by a movement of the arm and hand.

Usage examples:

I threw a brick through the window

noun

An act of throwing something.

Usage examples:

Holding's throw hit the stumps

verb

Propel through the air

verb

Cause to lose one's way; lead or drive astray.

Usage examples:

Unknowne lands, where we have wildered ourselves

adjective

(of an animal or plant) living or growing in the natural environment; not domesticated or cultivated.

Usage examples:

A herd of wild goats

adjective

Living or growing independently of people, in natural conditions, and with natural characteristics

Usage examples:

Wild turkeys, these herbs grow wild., he led a wild life., when i told him what i’d done, he went w…