Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To confuse or bewilder. synonym: perplex.
- transitive verb To make obscure or mysterious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To perplex purposely; play on the credulity of; bewilder; befog.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand.
- transitive verb To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of; to baffle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to thoroughly
confuse ,befuddle , orbewilder
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be a mystery or bewildering to
- verb make mysterious
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I appreciate the clarification, but I don't think your first paragraphs spelled out your own disagreement with Thomas and Scalia, and I don't think that the argument that they are wrong which is what you offer here is the same as the argument that they "mystify" or that they fail to offer reasons which distinguish the position they take here from there general opposition to the use of racial classifications.
Balkinization 2005
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And so for the president not to pardon him after this while pardoning Mr. Rich, it does kind of mystify me.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: When Is a Presidential Pardon Unpardonable? - January 29, 2001 2001
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Would we please try not to mystify thing by posting it again?
Daniel Schorr Predicts Bush Will Pardon Telcom Companies | Crooks ... admin 2009
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This nonphysical, heart-soul connection -- a testament to the cohesion of the human spirit -- somehow bridged cultural, language and experiential barriers and continues to mystify and move me in a way that I find difficult to articulate.
Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe Suzan Crane 2011
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North Korean students are taught Revolutionary History from elementary school to university, a subject full of tales that mystify and beatify the Kim dynasty, said Jun Myung-ho, a defector based in Seoul, who worked in North Korea's ruling Workers' Party for nine years before escaping to the South in 2004.
Pyongyang Myth-Builders Step It Up Jaeyeon Woo 2011
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Would we please try not to mystify thing by posting it again?
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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This nonphysical, heart-soul connection -- a testament to the cohesion of the human spirit -- somehow bridged cultural, language and experiential barriers and continues to mystify and move me in a way that I find difficult to articulate.
Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe Suzan Crane 2011
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So they act accordingly, even if their decisions often mystify us.
Cancellation Watch: How Do You Know if Your Favorite Show Will get Cancelled? 2009
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Location, location, location. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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So they act accordingly, even if their decisions often mystify us.
03 « September « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
mgoormastic commented on the word mystify
On p.224 of Easton Press's "The Three Musketeers" by Dumas, "mystify" is used in the sense of "to play mind games" or "to mess with someone's mind".
September 14, 2008