All 13 Uses
bewilder
in
A Death in the Family
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- I know Paw n all of us would feel it was mighty strange if his oldest boy, the one he always thought the most of ...This new voice and this new tack bewildered Jay for a moment.†
Chpt 2bewildered = confused
- Well He doesn't, Rufus insisted, angry and bewildered at the turn the discussion had taken.†
Chpt 5 *
- When I am astonished or bewildered, it is they who make the weak ground firm beneath my soul: it is in them that I put my trust.†
Chpt 7
- He did not know how to ask her what she was amused by and as he watched her, wondering what it was, and she watched his puzzlement, she sometimes looked more amused than ever, and once when she looked particularly amused, and he looked particularly bewildered, her smile became shaky and turned into laugher and, quickly taking his face between her hands, she exclaimed, "I'm not laughing at you, darling!†
Chpt 7
- And say your prayers, his mother said, looking at him suddenly with so much love that he was bewildered.†
Chpt 7
- She looked at her aunt in furious bewilderment.†
Chpt 8bewilderment = a feeling of extreme confusion
- She was waiting too long; Mary smiled at her, timidly, and in a beginning of bewilderment; and in compassion and self-doubt Hannah came around the table and they knelt side by side.†
Chpt 8
- They began to appreciate the tricks the more stupid boys played, one getting down behind him while he danced and another pushing him over backwards, but they were intelligent enough never to take part in this, always to pretend thorough disapproval, always to help him to his feet and brush him off and console him if he had struck his head hard and was crying, and always to conceal their astonished delight at his utter bewilderment and gullibility and their astonished contempt at his complete lack of spirit to strike out against his tormentors, his lack of ability, even, for real solid anger.†
Chpt 13
- His mother made one of the funniest faces he had ever seen, looking at his father all bewildered and surprised and holding in her laughter, and his father laughed out loud but Aunt Kate didn't wake up.†
Chpt 13bewildered = confused
- Catherine looked at him, bewildered.†
Chpt 15
- Catherine hesitated, bewildered.†
Chpt 17
- Bewildered, he did so.†
Chpt 17
- Rufus saw a much littler child than he was, with a puzzled, round, red face which looked angry, and he was somewhat sorry for her in the bewilderment and loneliness he felt she was lost in, but more, he was annoyed by this look of shut-in anger and this look of incomprehension and he thought over and over: "Dead.†
Chpt 18bewilderment = a feeling of extreme confusion
Definitions:
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(1)
(bewilder) to confuse someone
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)