bedevil

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verb

1. treat cruelly
- The children tormented the stuttering teacher
• Syn:
torment, rag, crucify, dun, frustrate
• Derivationally related forms:
frustration (for: frustrate), crucifixion (for: crucify), bedevilment, torment (for: torment), tormenter (for: torment), tormentor (for: torment)
• Hypernyms:
harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy,
chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
• Hyponyms:
madden, hamstring, tease, badger, pester,
bug, beleaguer, persecute, oppress
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
2. be confusing or perplexing to;
cause to be unable to think clearly
- These questions confuse even the experts
- This question completely threw me
- This question befuddled even the teacher
• Syn:
confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle,
confound, discombobulate
• Derivationally related forms:
discombobulation (for: discombobulate), befuddlement (for: befuddle), confusion (for: confuse)
• Hypernyms:
be
• Hyponyms:
demoralize, perplex, vex, stick, get,
puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder,
flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound,
disorient, disorientate
• Verb Group:
confuse, flurry, disconcert, put off
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- The performance is likely to bedevil Sue

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, confound, discombobulate, torment, rag, crucify, dun, frustrate