flummox
to confuse, or de-stabilise a person or system
TRANSLATION
verblüffen, verwirren
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Up till now computers have been FLUMMOXED by crude recognition tasks that even a baby can perform.
(TIME MAGAZINE, 3.2000)
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When Aaliyah’s dangerously overloaded and unbalanced Cessna 402B crashed as it left Marsh Harbour airport in the Bahamas, killing all nine onboard, the music world was shocked.
Aaliyah Dana Haughton’s funeral (featuring a horse-drawn glass carriage and a silver-plated casket) in New York six days later was so extravagant, the New York Post — FLUMMOXED by her lack of mainstream fame — called it 'a funeral to die for.'
(TIME MAGAZINE, 3.2000)
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When Aaliyah’s dangerously overloaded and unbalanced Cessna 402B crashed as it left Marsh Harbour airport in the Bahamas, killing all nine onboard, the music world was shocked.
Aaliyah Dana Haughton’s funeral (featuring a horse-drawn glass carriage and a silver-plated casket) in New York six days later was so extravagant, the New York Post — FLUMMOXED by her lack of mainstream fame — called it 'a funeral to die for.'
Did you
know?
flummox (informal)
Means to confuse, to perplex
There's an interesting set of synonyms for this interesting concept:
astonish, astound, baffle, balk, bewilder, boggle, bug, confound, daze, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dumbfound, embarrass, faze, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, frustrate, muddle, mystify, nonplus, paralyze, perplex, puzzle, rattle, stagger, stump, stun, stymie, take aback, throw, thwart
USAGE NOTE:
As flummox is considered informal - use it only for speech and casual writing.
Means to confuse, to perplex
There's an interesting set of synonyms for this interesting concept:
astonish, astound, baffle, balk, bewilder, boggle, bug, confound, daze, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dumbfound, embarrass, faze, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, frustrate, muddle, mystify, nonplus, paralyze, perplex, puzzle, rattle, stagger, stump, stun, stymie, take aback, throw, thwart
USAGE NOTE:
As flummox is considered informal - use it only for speech and casual writing.
