• (RP) IPA: /bɪˈwɪldə(ɹ)/
• (GA) IPA: /bɪˈwɪldɚ/

bewilder (bewilders, present participle bewildering; past and past participle bewildered)

1. (transitive) To confuse, disorientate, or puzzle#Verb|puzzle someone, especially with many different choices.

   Synonyms: befuddle, Thesaurus:confuse

   All the different possible options may bewilder us.

   Don’t push me into that maze and bewilder me.

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter II, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., OCLC 34363729 ↗, page 28 ↗:

     "Stop!" faltered Dorian Gray, "stop! you bewilder me. I don't know what to say. There is some answer to you, but I cannot find it. Don't speak. Let me think. Or, rather, let me try not to think."

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, “Burglary”, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384 ↗, page 35 ↗:

     She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

Conjugation of bewilder

infinitive	(to) bewilder
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	bewilder	bewildered
2nd-person singular	bewilderest*	bewildered, bewilderedst*
3rd-person singular	bewilders, bewildereth#English|bewildereth*	bewildered#English|bewildered
plural	bewilder
subjunctive	bewilder
imperative	bewilder	—
participle> participles	bewildering	bewildered
* Archaic or obsolete.

Translations

• French: abasourdir, confondre, déconcerter, dérouter, désorienter
• German: verwirren, durcheinanderbringen
• Italian: confondere, disorientare, sconcertare, disorientare
• Portuguese: confundir, desconcertar, desorientar
• Russian: смуща́ть
• Spanish: confundir, desconcertar

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