befogged
Collocations
4ADJ.
considered, contradictory, entire
BEFOGGED + NOUN
bookstall, gaslight, valley
PREP.
from, in
ADV.
further, only
Definitions
adj
Obscured with fog or smoke; murky.
1614, John Taylor, “Plutoes Proclamation concerning his Infernall pleasure for the Propagation of Tobacco” in The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses, London: Nathaniel Butter, […] euery one a Furies shape assumes, Befog’d and clouded with my hel-hatch’d fumes.
Standing half-befogged upon the mountain of his Fate, all that part of the wide panorama was wrapped in clouds to him; but anon those concealings slid aside, or rather, a quick rent was made in them; […]
Caught in fog.
[…] this morning he was close aboard the N. Coast, it seemeth high ragged land and full of guts, he was becalmed and befogged, and stood S. wards into the channell […]
The fact is, he knew every rock, the set of every current at every season of the year, and in his younger days had often gone to the assistance of befogged vessels and piloted them safely into harbour or clear of the coast.
Confused, muddled.
[…] you speake you wot not what, you are altogether befogd and benighted in this question.
1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXIX, If I could only get back to the inscription or the grotto I felt the rest would be easy to accomplish, but the more I rambled the more utterly befogged I got.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — stupefied by alcoholic drink
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51614, John Taylor, “Plutoes Proclamation concerning his Infernall pleasure for the Propagation of Tobacco” in The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses, London: Nathaniel Butter, […] euery one a Furies shape
WiktionaryStanding half-befogged upon the mountain of his Fate, all that part of the wide panorama was wrapped in clouds to him; but anon those concealings slid aside, or rather, a quick rent was made in them;
WiktionaryPeter Baron, as he sat in his corner while the train stopped, considered, in the befogged gaslight, the bookstall standard of literature and asked himself whose character had fallen to pieces now.
WiktionaryTom's contradictory explanations only befogged the issue further.
Tatoeba · #13604602The smoke from the wildfire befogged the entire valley for days.
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