Both Uses
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Rip Van Winkle
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- In place of these, a lean fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens—elections—members of congress—Bunker's Hill—heroes of seventy-six—and other words, which were a perfect jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.†
bewildered = confused
- In the midst of his bewilderment, the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and what was his name.†
*bewilderment = a feeling of extreme confusion
Definitions:
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(1)
(bewilder) to confuse someone
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)