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Thesaurus: perplex

To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.

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  1. a. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
  2. a. To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety.
  3. a. To plague; to vex; to tormen.
  4. a. Intricate; difficult.
  5. v. be a mystery or bewildering to
  6. v. make more complicated
  7. v:100 v. be a mystery or bewildering to