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Word entry · 7 letters

perplex

Best crossword clue

"Confuse deeply"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /pɚˈplɛks/Part of speech verbSorted eelpprxStarts with PEnds with X1 clues
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Definitions

  1. make more complicated

Word origin

From Old French, from Latin perplexus (“entangled, confused”), from per (“through”) + plexus, perfect passive participle of plectō (“plait, weave, braid”).

Used in a sentence

  • What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
  • The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]
  • Chloe's the wonder of her sex, 'Tis well her heart is tender, How might such killing eyes perplex, With virtue to defend her.

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