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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪstɪfaɪ/

動詞

mystify (三人称単数 現在形 mystifies, 現在分詞 mystifying, 過去形および過去分詞形 mystified)

1. (transitive) To thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.

   Solar eclipses continued to mystify ancient humans for thousands of years.

派生語

• demystify

関連する語

• mysterious
• mystery
• mystic
• mystical
• mysticism
• mystique

Further reading

• mystify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• mystify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• mystify at OneLook Dictionary Search