ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Bedunce

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Bedunce is a verb meaning (transitive, archaic, rare) To treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid.

Meaning

(transitive, archaic, rare) To treat as, or reduce to, a dunce; to make stupid.

Example Sentences

After he has sufficiently bedunced us through several pages, he at last has the tenderness to answer to our particular objections, and that with sufficient perplexity.
[…] reamsful of financial or statistical calculations; the figures of which, when duly emitted in the House, sufficed to bedunce the brains of five hundred wiser men; […]

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bunce, duncify, dumben, bedumb, bedaze, bedust.

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