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befogged

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verb

past tense of befog
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for befogged
Adjective
  • The image is hazy because the low light and long exposures can add digital noise to Perseverance's images.
    Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 16 May 2025
  • Skyscrapers towered over a hazy, Saharan landscape — a vibrant melting pot of modernist and historical sites and structures, situated on a confluence of the Nile River.
    Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • The actor—who is also currently filming season three of Euphoria—took the time to walk the wide-eyed and probably quite bewildered pup around the carpeted front of the hotel, and looked chic doing it.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 7 May 2025
  • Heyman then handed the chair to a bewildered Roman Reigns, who used it to strike downed CM Punk.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Many people get confused by these forms which contain code and jargon that rarely offer a clear explanation of anything.
    Steve Weisman, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The Ice Age mammals, which should not be confused with the larger woolly mammoths, seemed to have an had an affinity for Orange County, where this one — and about a third of the state’s total — have been found.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • In the crowded parish hall, a sea of limbs and phones and flashes of light obscured the painting.
    James Factora, Them, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, all these great locations and details are obscured constantly, muddled into blurry backgrounds.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The rain, which arrived in the North Bay part of the region late Sunday was expected to migrate to the South Bay and drop light, misty rain measuring in the tenths of inches through the afternoon, NWS meteorologist Dial Hoang said.
    Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The present-day Affleck and titular accountant from The Accountant 2 seems to briefly reach out and touch the Sad Affleck of days of yore in this final memory, his eyes almost misty and voice quiet.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The museum show did happen — though some of what’s in it is fabricated, including a few fake ads for Apple and Absolut Vodka that the band very much did not shoot — but everyone in attendance seems a little dazed and confused about it, including the band.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • Once Connor Brown deposited the puck into the empty Los Angeles net and rejoiced, the Kings milled about the ice in a dazed and confused state.
    Eric Stephens, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Verb
  • The initial impression of prestige clouded critical considerations like fit, costs and expertise needed to address your challenges.
    Shanna Apitz, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • From my own personal trauma and experiences hearing false accusations about him all the time clouded my judgement and got the best of me.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Its origins are as murky as the exact proportions of the recipe.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 14 May 2025
  • Instead, the injury made his situation murky at best.
    Adam Jahns, New York Times, 13 May 2025
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“Befogged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/befogged. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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