perplex
per pleks
- v be a mystery or bewildering to
- v make more complicated
- His book raises questions of conscience which, though they can never be satisfactorily settled, will perplex society and individuals as long as men are bound in loyalty to .
- Putin's rise continues to perplex even devoted Kremlin observers.
- I guess what continues to perplex me at least a little is how lacking in the customary rigor of modern academic economics the arguments for stimulus are.