English > mystify: 2 senses > verb 1, cognition| Meaning | Be a mystery or bewildering to. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
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| Model | The bad news will mystify him; The good news will mystify her; The performance is likely to mystify Sue |
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| Synonyms | perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound |
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| Narrower | elude, escape | Be incomprehensible to |
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| riddle | Set a difficult problem or riddle |
| stump, mix up | Cause to be perplexed or confounded |
| Broader | confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate | Be confusing / confusing or perplexing to |
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| Spanish | asombrar, confundir, desconcertar, incomodar, irritar, molestar, sorprender |
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| Catalan | desconcertar, incomodar, irritar, molestar |
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| Nouns | mystery | something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained |
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| mystification | the activity of obscuring / obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered |
| mystification | something designed to mystify or bewilder / bewilder |
| mystifier | a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution |