perplex — قاموس الإنجليزية

فعل

1. To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.

   الاستعمال

   • متعدٍ

2. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.

   الاستعمال

   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   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; […]

3. To plague; to vex; to torment.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور
   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   Chloe's the wonder of her sex, 'Tis well her heart is tender, How might such killing eyes perplex, With virtue to defend her.

   All night no ruder air perplex ⁠Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright ⁠As our pure love, thro’ early light Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.

صفة

1. intricate; difficult

   الاستعمال

   • عتيق

   أمثلة

   How the soul directs the spirits for the motion of the body, according to the several animal exigents, is as perplex in the Theory, as either of the former.

   Finally, I explore possible audience interpretations of the film and offer some alternative reading strategies of these highly perplex sketches.

اسم

1. A difficulty.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور

فعل

1. be a mystery or bewildering to

   مرادفات

   vexstickgetpuzzlemystifybafflebeatposebewilderflummoxstupefynonplusgravelamazedumbfound

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   confusethrowfoxbefuddlefuddlebedevilconfounddiscombobulate

   أمثلة

   This beats me!

   Got me — I don't know the answer!

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   a vexing problem

   This question really stuck me

2. make more complicated

   مرادفات

   complicate

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   changealtermodify

   أمثلة

   There was a new development that complicated the matter