All 17 Uses of
bewilder
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- The tavern, the degraded appearance of the man, the five nights in the hay barge, and the pot of spirits, and yet this poignant love for his wife and children bewildered his listener.†
Chpt 1.2bewildered = confused
- The policeman was bewildered, and stared at him open-eyed.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- And why just to-day?" he thought in agonising bewilderment.†
Chpt 2.1bewilderment = a feeling of extreme confusion
- But while he stood at the railing, still looking angry and bewildered after the retreating carriage, and rubbing his back, he suddenly felt someone thrust money into his hand.†
Chpt 2.2bewildered = confused
- He stood in the middle of the room and gazed in miserable bewilderment about him; he walked to the door, opened it, listened; but that was not what he wanted.†
Chpt 2.3bewilderment = a feeling of extreme confusion
- Sonia stopped short in the doorway and looked about her bewildered, unconscious of everything.†
Chpt 2.7bewildered = confused
- Razumihin muttered in bewilderment.†
Chpt 3.5bewilderment = a feeling of extreme confusion
- It can't be!" he said at last aloud in bewilderment.†
Chpt 4.1
- "They are very good people, very kind," answered Sonia, who still seemed bewildered, "and all the furniture, everything...everything is theirs.†
Chpt 4.4bewildered = confused
- Raskolnikov, bewildered, suddenly fell into actual frenzy, but, strange to say, he again obeyed the command to speak quietly, though he was in a perfect paroxysm of fury.†
Chpt 4.5
- Porfiry Petrovitch was obviously bewildered.†
Chpt 4.6
- He was so muddled and bewildered that on getting home he sat for a quarter of an hour on the sofa, trying to collect his thoughts.†
Chpt 4.6
- She looked at him bewildered.†
Chpt 5.4
- Where am I?" she said in complete bewilderment, as though still unable to recover herself.†
Chpt 5.4bewilderment = a feeling of extreme confusion
- Sonia listened to him in bewilderment and did her utmost to comprehend.†
Chpt 5.4
- She seized him by the shoulder, he got up, looking at her almost bewildered.†
Chpt 5.4bewildered = confused
- This slight friendly gesture bewildered Raskolnikov.†
Chpt 6.1
Definition:
to confuse someone