Definition of bewilder
1 : to cause to lose one's bearings (see bearing sense 6c)
bewildered by the city's maze of roads
2 : to perplex or confuse especially by a complexity, variety, or multitude of objects or considerations
His decision bewildered her. utterly bewildered by the instructions
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The first known use of bewilder was in 1633
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