bemuddleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

to bemuddle (三人称単数 現在形 bemuddles, 現在分詞 bemuddling, 過去形および過去分詞形 bemuddled)

1. (archaic) to confuse, distort
   • 1822 Charles and Mary Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6)^[1]:

     He is swallowed up, body and soul, in law; he eats, drinks, plays (at the card table) Law, nothing but Law. He acts Ignoramus in the play so thoroughly, that you w'd swear that in the inmost marrow of his head (is not this the proper anatomical term?) there have housed themselves not devils but pettifoggers, to bemuddle with their noisy chatter his own and his friends' wits.

   • 1890 John Fiske, Civil Government in the United States Considered with^[2]:

     Its educational value is far higher than that of the newspaper, which, in spite of its many merits as a diffuser of information, is very apt to do its best to bemuddle and sophisticate plain facts.

   • 1897 John Fiske, The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2)^[3]:

     But some modern sources of information have served at first to bemuddle, and then when more carefully sifted, to clear up the story.