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verb (bemus, ing)
  1. To confuse or bewilder, especially regarding emotional matters, for example: "For God's sake, why do people keep using 'bemused' as if it means 'amused'?" asked the bemused editor.
    • 1735 A parson much be-mus'd in beer. — Alexander Pope, Satires of Dr. Donne versified
    • 1771 With fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies. — James Foot, Penseroso
    • 1847 The bad metaphysics with which they bemuse themselves. — Hugh Miller, First Impressions of England and its people
      1. (archaic meaning) to devote to the Muses.
    • 1705 When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus'd. — Alexander Pope, Letters
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