MYSTIFIED

metagrobolized, metagrobolised, metagrabolized, metagrabolised, mystified

(adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up; “all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized”- Wall Street Journal

MYSTIFY

mystify

(verb) make mysterious; “mystify the story”

perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to; “This beats me!”; “Got me--I don’t know the answer!”; “a vexing problem”; “This question really stuck me”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

mystified

simple past tense and past participle of mystify

Adjective

mystified

puzzled or confused

state of enchantment as concerns person or event

Source: Wiktionary


MYSTIFY

Mys"ti*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mystified; p. pr. & vb. n. Mystifying.] Etym: [F. mystifier, fr. Gr. -ficare (in comp.) to make. See 1st Mystery, and -fy.]

1. To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

2. To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent. He took undue advantage of his credulity and mystified him exceedingly. Ld. Campbell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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COWBERRY

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Coffee Trivia

An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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