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