bewilderment

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bewilderment

  • /bɪˈwɪldəmənt/ UK
  • /bɪˈwɪldəɹmənt/ US

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From bewilder + -ment.

noun bewilderments

  1. countable, uncountable The state of being bewildered. She looked around in bewilderment.
  2. countable, uncountable A confusing or perplexing situation. Her flutter--pale disconcerted ghost as she actually was, a broken white flower tied round, almost grotesquely for his present sense, with a huge satin "bow" of the Boulevard--her flutter had been mainly that of ribbons, frills and fine fabrics; all funny, pathetic evidence, for memory, of the bewil

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