Definition of "befuddled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of befuddle. (verb)
• Confused or perplexed (adjective)
• Drunk (adjective)

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• "Reporting from Seoul- Beleaguered Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan stepped down Friday, fulfilling a promise to critics who attacked what they called his befuddled response to the nation's dual economic and nuclear crises triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami."
• "What a bunch of fruitcake addicted brain befuddled cultish morons."
• "While the latter, witnesses of the happening and directly on the spot, had been crying out in befuddled helplessness, and with slow wits and slower bodies been climbing upon the rail, the second mate had descended the steep ladder from the poop, covered two hundred feet of deck, sprung upon the rail, grasped the instant need of the situation, and cast the coil of line into the water."