fuddled v make stupid with alcohol v consume alcohol v be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly This question befuddled even the teacher s very drunk Usage(s) Sometimes he simply looks like hell -- fat, dissolute, aging, fuddled. The tall, white-haired man loved more than he mournedcrouching wives, fuddled dogs and all. Beside tough Dictators Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, the sword-rattling Kaiser and autocratic Tsar looked like kindly, slightly fuddled grandfathers. Synonym(s) befuddle fuddle drink booze confuse throw fox bedevil confound discombobulate besotted blind drunk blotto crocked cockeyed loaded pie-eyed pissed pixilated plastered slopped sloshed smashed soaked soused sozzled squiffy stiff tight wet