All 8 Uses
bewilder
in
The Turn of the Screw
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- And quickly catching up a candlestick, he left us slightly bewildered.†
Chpt Allbewildered = confused
- It would have been impossible to carry a bad name with a greater sweetness of innocence, and by the time I had got back to Bly with him I remained merely bewildered—so far, that is, as I was not outraged—by the sense of the horrible letter locked up in my room, in a drawer.†
Chpt All
- There came to me thus a bewilderment of vision of which, after these years, there is no living view that I can hope to give.†
Chpt All *bewilderment = a feeling of extreme confusion
- Mrs. Grose was not too bewildered instinctively to protest.†
Chpt Allbewildered = confused
- —what if, by risking to his boyish bewilderment a revelation of my motive, I should throw across the rest of the mystery the long halter of my boldness?†
Chpt Allbewilderment = a feeling of extreme confusion
- At this I was able to straighten myself; I went the rest of the way up; I made, in my bewilderment, for the schoolroom, where there were objects belonging to me that I should have to take.†
Chpt All
- Mrs. Grose bewilderedly echoed.†
Chpt All
- At this, after a second in which his head made the movement of a baffled dog's on a scent and then gave a frantic little shake for air and light, he was at me in a white rage, bewildered, glaring vainly over the place and missing wholly, though it now, to my sense, filled the room like the taste of poison, the wide, overwhelming presence.†
Chpt Allbewildered = confused
Definitions:
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(1)
(bewilder) to confuse someone
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)