verb
definition
To confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices.
example
All the different possible options may bewilder us.
synonyms
adjective
definition
Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain.
example
He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.
Examples of bewildered in a Sentence
He looked bewildered as he explained the situation to us.
He gave me another bewildered look.
At first he was so bewildered that he could not answer.
Alex stared down at her with a bewildered expression.
His head turned suddenly, his bewildered gaze searching her face.
Fred looked as bewildered as Cynthia.
She met his bewildered gaze and wrinkled her nose.
His voice was husky and bewildered as he gazed down at her.
When asked the colour of some one whose occupation she did not know she seemed bewildered, and finally said "blue."
His bewildered gaze traveled over her face, landing questioningly on her eyes.
The great native chiefs, bewildered and disquieted, thought themselves menaced.
She seemed bewildered with her surroundings and very weak.
He turned, and was off up the stairs, propelling his bewildered wife before him.
Bolkonski only tried not to lose touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was happening in front of him.
Howie was bewildered, leaving everything in our hands.
She looked at him bewildered.
A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant as he rode by.
Edith Shipton wasn't a saint either, nor do I think she was near as bewildered about life as she let on.
A warm embrace caught her mid-fall over the cliff, and the scent of soap and man penetrated her bewildered senses.
Eyes blurred with tears and bewildered, she couldn't make sense of anything around her anymore.
His expression was bewildered for only a fraction of a second, and then he made a face.
Martha looked bewildered as she tried in vain to quiet Claire.
Effie is plain bewildered.
Betty still looked completely bewildered.
His expression was clearly bewildered.
In the wild state they never defend themselves, and if approached from different points, according to the Indian fashion of hunting, get completely bewildered and fall an easy prey.
They managed to leave Preston totally bewildered at how they let Brierley Hill off the hook.
Then she went all round the table to see who was there, and finding no one but me, she seemed bewildered.
But the once proud and shrewd rulers of France, feeling that their part is played out, are even more bewildered than he, and do not say the words they should have said to destroy him and retain their power.
Melbourne swamped by flash floods Perched on the roofs of their cars, they look out bewildered on a city inundated with flash floods.
Cleopatra, the commanding Queen of the Nile, charmed men and bewildered passerby's with her mesmerizing beauty.
It's even worse when that family is truly loving, but bewildered by why you are not sampling every dish.
Virgo isn't the best communicator of the zodiac, so he'll be left bewildered and wondering what happened to his Lady in the Lake.
This is why he is often bewildered when some of his relationships fail.
The young pair team up to discover what they can about Dust, eventually enlisting the bewildered help of an Our-Universe physicist named Mary Malone, who recognizes that Dust is the Dark Matter of modern physics.
He stood up, bewildered.
Jackson immediately shielded Connor, who was understandably bewildered.
Turning to see what Alex was doing, she found him still standing beside the truck looking bewildered.
He looked startled and then bewildered.
Thus surrounded by dangers on all sides the wretched shah was bewildered.
The grin faded from his face, replaced with a bewildered expression.
Little gray haired Effie wore a perpetual smile on her pretty face, a tad on the silly side but charming nonetheless, in a bewildered sort of way.
He was bewildered by the choices offered on the offer.
The buyer was bewildered by the range available.
Somewhat bewildered he said, "I would love to know how you manage to turn up everywhere?"
I sat there slightly bewildered, no longer quite certain about what might be happening in the vicinity.
He was bewildered when a well-loved member of the community is found dead in the maple woods.
He was bewildered why he hadn't scored.
I was bewildered to find that our magistrates courts have become junior crown courts.
I do not think that Lizzie distrusted my sincerity, but it was evident that she was both bewildered and a little contemptuous.