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单词 mystify
释义
mystify
verb[Toften passive]
uk
/ˈmɪs.tɪ.faɪ/us
/ˈmɪs.tə.faɪ/
toconfusesomeone by being or doing something verystrangeorimpossibletoexplain:
使迷惑不解；使困惑
I was mystified by herdecision.她的决定使我迷惑不解。
MostAmericansaretotallymystified by theEnglishgameofcricket.大多数美国人似乎完全搞不懂英国的板球运动是怎么回事。
Synonyms
baffle
bemuse
bewilder
flummoxinformal
perplex
puzzle
Opposite
demystify
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Puzzle and confuse
  • addle
  • baffle
  • bedazzle
  • befuddle
  • bemuse
  • discombobulate
  • disorientate
  • dosomeone'shead inidiom
  • flummox
  • fox
  • fuddle
  • loop
  • puzzle
  • search
  • throw
  • throw(someone)a curve (ball)idiom
  • throwsomeoneoff balanceidiom
  • tie
  • tiesomeone(up) in knotsidiom
  • unbalance
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Related words

mystifying
mystifyingly
(Definition ofmystifyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

mystify| American Dictionary

mystify
verb[T]
us
/ˈmɪs·təˌfɑɪ/
toconfusesomeone or make someoneuncertainby doing orinvolvingthepersonin somethingdifficulttoexplain:
Doctors were mystified by her highfeverandheadaches.
(Definition ofmystifyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmystify

mystify
The lack of knowledge and research on the powerful contributes to mystifying their roles and therefore maintains their position of privilege in society.
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To make too much, however, of this seeming commonality is, finally, not helpful and may, in fact, needlesslymystifyefforts to understand sound installation.
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The second part includes an attempt tomystifythe audience through ingenious theatre technology.
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The first movement begins with the mystifying direction 'start somewhat more slowly'.
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Romanticism's notion of originality, in my view, mystified the notion of fame by substituting a cultural criterion for the economic one.
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Continued reference to customary law kept the agents of the state mystified about and marginal to important affairs of the region and community.
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The requirement of maintaining strong local allegiances is a standard practice in hip hop that continues tomystifymany critics of the rap genre.
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Nevertheless, if one holds that long-term memory representations are not destroyed, it is a bit mystifying how they can be so altered.
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That she does so without the rankling of those whose tendency is tomystifyis a considerable achievement.
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In effect, the research process could not be mystified and my performance as a researcher was transparent.
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The plaintiff seemed quite mystified by this remark.
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But before you get it, you can be quite mystified as to what is going on.
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There is no need tomystifythis.
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On the contrary, we should attend to those aspects that are difficult to explain, where our reactions jar ormystify, when our categories and metaphors fail us.
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Condorcet sees a far more active and therefore more dangerous opponent: the oppressive, mystifying class of priests.
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