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Perplex

  1. verb

    be a mystery or bewildering to

    “This beats me!”

    Similar: vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle

  2. verb

    make more complicated

    “There was a new development that complicated the matter”

    Similar: complicate

Word family

perplexity · perplexed · perplexing

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