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puzzled

adj
/ˈpʌ.zl̩d/

Definitions

  1. Confused or perplexed.

    • They diſentangle from the puzzled ſkein / In vvhich obſcurity has vvrapp'd them up, / The threads of politic and ſhrevvd deſign / That ran through all his purpoſes, […]
    • [W]hen the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
    • Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.

  2. simple past and past participle of puzzle

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at puzzled. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at puzzled. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at puzzled

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA