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41puzzle# — puzzle vb Puzzle, perplex, mystify, bewilder, distract, nonplus, confound, dumbfound are comparable when they mean to disturb and baffle mentally or throw into mental confusion. The first three words express various mental reactions to what is… …
42deadlock — n 1. stalemate, impasse, standstill; quietus, halt, stop, stoppage, full stop, dead stop, cessation; stand, stay, check, checkmate, mate; block, blockage; stand off, tie, draw. 2. dilemma, perplexity, nonplus; predicament, hole, Inf. fix, corner; …
43stalemate — n 1. deadlock, impasse, standstill; qui etus, deathblow; halt, stop, stoppage, full stop, dead stop; stand, stay, check, checkmate, mate; blockage, block; stand off, tie, draw, dead heat. 2. dilemma, perplexity, nonplus; predicament, hole, Inf.… …
44plural — [14] Plural is one of a range of English words that go back ultimately to Latin plūs ‘more’, a descendant (like English full and Greek pólus ‘much’, source of the English prefix poly ) of the Indo European base *plē ‘full’. This was borrowed into …
45puzzle — [puz′əl] vt. puzzled, puzzling [ME * poselen (inferred < pp. poselet), to bewilder, confuse < ?] to perplex; confuse; bewilder; nonplus vi. 1. to be perplexed, etc. 2. to exercise one s mind, as over the solution of a problem n. 1. the… …
46non|plus — «non PLUHS, NON pluhs», verb, plused, plus|ing or (especially British) plussed, plus|sing, noun. –v.t. to puzzle completely; make unable to say or do anything: »We were nonplused to see two roads leading off to the left where we had expected only …
47floor one — {v. phr.} To overwhelm; astound; nonplus. * /John s sudden announcement that he would retire floored all of us in the office./ …
48floor one — {v. phr.} To overwhelm; astound; nonplus. * /John s sudden announcement that he would retire floored all of us in the office./ …
49dumbfound — v. same as {dumfound}. Syn: confuse, perplex, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, puzzle, mystify, baffle, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, stupify, nonplus, gravel, amaze, trounce, confound, be confusing to, make confused. [WordNet 1.5] …
50faze — Phase Phase (f[=a]z), v. t. [Cf. {Feeze}.] To disturb the composure of; to disconcert; to nonplus; an older spelling, now replaced by {faze}. [Colloq., Archaic] Syn: faze. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] …
