perplex

To confuse or trouble with uncertainty or doubt.

To make confusedly intricate; complicate.

Intricate; difficult.

A difficulty; an entanglement; something hard to understand; a perplexity.

To make intricate; involve; entangle; make complicated and difficult to be understood or unraveled.

To embarrass; puzzle; distract; bewilder; trouble with suspense, anxiety, or ambiguity.

Synonyms To complicate, tangle, snarl.

Puzzle, etc. (see embarrass), confuse, harass, pose, nonplus, put to a stand, mystify.

Intricate; difficult.

To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood.