English > fuddle: 4 senses > verb 2, consumption| Meaning | consume alcohol. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
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| Synonyms | hit the bottle, drink, booze |
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| Entailed by | sober up, sober | Become sober after excessive alcohol consumption |
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| toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail | Propose a toast to |
| wine and dine | Eat sumptuously |
| Narrower | carry, hold | drink alcohol without showing ill effects |
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| claret | drink claret |
| port | drink port |
| pub-crawl, bar hop | Go from one pub to the next and get progressively more drunk |
| souse, soak, inebriate, hit it up | Become drunk or drink excessively |
| tank | Consume excessive amounts of alcohol |
| tipple, bib | drink moderately but regularly |
| wine | drink wine |
| Broader | consume, ingest, take in, take, have | Serve oneself to, or consume regularly |
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| Similar to | drink, tope | drink excessive amounts of alcohol |
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| Spanish | beber, emborracharse, soplar, tomar unas copas, tomar |
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| Catalan | beure, prendre |
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English > fuddle: 4 senses > verb 3, cognition| Meaning | Be confusing / confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
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| Example | "This question befuddled even the teacher" |
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| Synonyms | confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate |
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| Narrower | demoralize | confuse or put into disorder |
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| disorient, disorientate | Cause to be lost or disoriented |
| perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound | Be a mystery or bewildering to |
| Broader | be | Have the quality of being |
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| Similar to | confuse, flurry, disconcert, put off | Cause to feel embarrassment |
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| Spanish | aturdir, confundir, dejar perplejo, desorientar, tirar |
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| Catalan | confondre, deixar perplex, desconcertar, desorientar, embolicar, embrollar, ofuscar, tirar, torbar |
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