befuddled• Dawn looked a little befuddled.• If only he could keep his increasingly befuddledbrain clear enough to squeeze out what he wanted.• Even in my befuddled state I could see they meant trouble.• Tony Hopkins tries out an array of voices and manners - befuddled vagueness, boomingferocity. dangerous, smiling brusqueness.
Originbefuddled
(1800-1900)fuddle“to drink alcohol, make drunk”((16-21 centuries))