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词汇 mystify
释义 mystify
verb[ Toften passive ]
uk /ˈmɪs.tɪ.faɪ/ us /ˈmɪs.tə.faɪ/
to confuse someone by being or doing something very strange or impossible to explain: 使迷惑不解;使困惑
I was mystified by her decision.她的决定使我迷惑不解。
Most Americans are totally mystified by the English game of cricket.大多数美国人似乎完全搞不懂英国的板球运动是怎么回事。
Synonyms
baffle
bemuse
bewilder
flummoxinformal
perplex
puzzle
Opposite
demystify
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Puzzle and confuse
addle
baffle
bedazzle
befuddle
bemuse
cloud
confuse
discombobulate
disorientate
do someone's head inidiom
flummox
fox
puzzle
search
throw
throw (someone) a curve (ball)/curveballidiom
throw someone off balanceidiom
tie
tie someone (up) in knotsidiom
unbalance

Related words


mystifying
mystifyingly

mystify | American Dictionary


mystify
verb[ T ]
us/ˈmɪs·təˌfɑɪ/
to confuse someone or make someone uncertain by doing or involving the person in something difficult to explain:
Doctors were mystified by her high fever and headaches.

Examples of mystify


mystify
The lack of knowledge and research on the powerful contributes to mystifying their roles and therefore maintains their position of privilege in society.
To make too much, however, of this seeming commonality is, finally, not helpful and may, in fact, needlessly mystify efforts to understand sound installation.
The second part includes an attempt to mystify the audience through ingenious theatre technology.
The first movement begins with the mystifying direction 'start somewhat more slowly'.
Romanticism's notion of originality, in my view, mystified the notion of fame by substituting a cultural criterion for the economic one.
Continued reference to customary law kept the agents of the state mystified about and marginal to important affairs of the region and community.
The requirement of maintaining strong local allegiances is a standard practice in hip hop that continues to mystify many critics of the rap genre.
Nevertheless, if one holds that long-term memory representations are not destroyed, it is a bit mystifying how they can be so altered.
That she does so without the rankling of those whose tendency is to mystify is a considerable achievement.
In effect, the research process could not be mystified and my performance as a researcher was transparent.
The plaintiff seemed quite mystified by this remark.
But before you get it, you can be quite mystified as to what is going on.
There is no need to mystify this.
On the contrary, we should attend to those aspects that are difficult to explain, where our reactions jar or mystify, when our categories and metaphors fail us.
Condorcet sees a far more active and therefore more dangerous opponent: the oppressive, mystifying class of priests.
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