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# bewilder

«bewilder» in Mova's school dictionary: **to confuse them so much that they do not know what to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (bewilder, bewilders, bewildered, bewildering)

### meaning for a pupil

To bewilder someone is to confuse them so much that they do not know what to think or do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bewilder/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a strange change or a splendid place leaves the hero or princess bewildered.

### examples

- The Princess said, «It is bewildering!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bewilder/#x1)
- The maze of halls was enough to bewilder anyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bewilder/#x2)
- The long maths problem bewildered me at first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bewilder/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.422/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bewilder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bewilder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.