Mystify: alternatives and connections

To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

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To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

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Mixed; confounded.

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A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulv…

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To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.

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To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.

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To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

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Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.

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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar…

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To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an…

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To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from san…

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The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.

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The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.

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The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.

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Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow.

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Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow.

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To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.

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To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

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To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.

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To bewilder or confuse someone

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Jet, the mineral.

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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.

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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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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…

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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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