All 7 Uses of
bewilder
in
Main Street
- The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest.†
Chpt 1 *
- With pity for his bewilderment, and a certain desire to giggle, she consoled him, "Then let's try some Tennyson.†
Chpt 10
- His confident voice dwindled to a bewildered murmur, ceaseless and racking.†
Chpt 26
- A bewildered spirit fallen on Main Street.†
Chpt 28
- Erik was bewildered; glanced at Carol.†
Chpt 28
- She alternately considered ways of leaving Kennicott, and remembered his virtues, pitied his bewilderment in face of the subtle corroding sicknesses which he could not dose nor cut out.†
Chpt 31
- It had not occurred to her that there was also a story of Will Kennicott, into which she entered only so much as he entered into hers; that he had bewilderments and concealments as intricate as her own, and soft treacherous desires for sympathy.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(bewilder) to confuse someone