bemuse

verb

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Pronunciation: /bɪˈmjuːz/ / /bəˈmjuːz/

Etymology: From be- + muse. In meaning, influenced by bemaze and later amuse.

To confuse or bewilder.
“[With] fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies.”
“the bad metaphysics with which they bemuse themselves”
To be amused, especially sardonically.
To devote to the Muses.
“When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus'd”
To make drunk; to intoxicate.
“a parson much be-mus'd in beer”
“This old man generally bemused himself in beer, once a fortnight.”