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bemused
- simple past and past participle of bemuse
Adjective
bemused (comparative more bemused, superlative most bemused)
- deeply thoughtful; preoccupied
- perplexed and bewildered
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65:That left Bradly as bemused as ever, for it posed another incomprehensibility: Why had Podson walked here?
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