puzzled• Her reaction left me puzzled.• Hospitalstaff were puzzled after children collapsed with cardiacarrests and respiratory attacks.• Presently, Jaq blanked the eye-screen and relaxed, though with a puzzled air.• He saw the knot of people beyond the flamesgazing at him in puzzledamazement, but they made no response.• She had sounded rather puzzled and insulted.• She looked puzzled and rather angry, and Syl looked old and silly.• Epitot looked puzzled and removed it again.• All squatted, puzzled and uncertain.• The doctor was puzzled by the man's symptoms and ordered several further tests.• After my explanation, Mandy still had a puzzledexpression on her face.• It gatherspuzzledobservers wherever it goes, too.• I'm a little puzzled - why did you call her yourself when I specifically told you I would do it?
puzzled about/as to/at• I had been puzzled as to how to proceed.• They'd rightly be puzzled as to why they used a £1,500 computer instead of a £1.50 thermometer.